House and Senate Appropriators and NASA's FY2015 Budget
House FY 2015 NASA Appropriations Bill, AIP
“Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee released an unnumbered Full Committee Print to accompany the FY 2015 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill. This is a draft version of the committee report that is to be issued providing all-important language on the departments and agencies funded by this bill. This FYI reviews the National Aeronautics and Space Administration portion of the report.”
Top Senate Appropriators Fault FY 2015 NASA Budget Request
“Administrator Bolden, we really do strongly disagree on this” Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) said at last week’s hearing on the FY 2015 NASA budget request for science programs. Committee Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL) was also critical as he questioned the “administration’s level of commitment to a forward-thinking inspirational space program.”
Mikulski vs. Shelby.
JWST vs. SLS.
Godzilla vs. King Kong.
Forward thinking, ha! That’s a joke! How can you forward think when you being forced to spend the majority of your budget on legacy outdated hardware with buggar-all left for technology development.
The Wolf House bill again calls for NASA to spend more on SLS and less on Commercial Crew, and calls for a downselect to one provider. This would be to abandon NACA’s traditional role as a partner to private industry in increasing American competitiveness.