Senate Appropriators Propose $22.75 Billion for NASA in FY2020, Some Extra for Artemis, Space Policy Online
“The Senate Appropriations Committee began marking up its version of the FY2020 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill that funds NASA today. The eagerly anticipated action is seen as a bellwether of Senate support for NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024. The results appear mixed, with some but not all of the extra $1.6 billion NASA requested in May. It is an improvement compared to the House version, however, which did not include any of the $1.6 billion. Overall the agency did slightly better in the Senate committee than in the House, with a top-line of $22.75 billion compared to $22.32 billion.”

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5 replies on “Some Good Budget News For NASA”

  1. Looks like folks were bamboozled by Doug Cooke’s shilling. Boeing turned the $450k consultant fee into a $350M EUS windfall guess that was money well spent for them only cost actual space exploration progress for HLS since they took a $265M hit.

    1. They weren’t bamboozled. It’s all part of the con. Boeing already told them to fund the EUS, the politicians said they needed an “independent expert” to testify. Voila, Doug Cooke shows up to testify.

      1. I really hope you are wrong about that. If that’s a con, it’s a stupid and obvious con. The idea of “follow[ing] the money” is at least as old as me. No competent con man would lie about financial connection which half an hour on the internet would turn up. So you are implying a con by people who aren’t even competent to hustle pool in a second rate bar, or people who think they are working marks who are utterly clueless. Since you’re talking about the government and the public, it would be very depressing if you were correct. Not shocking, just depressing.

          1. Like many others, too, Ken, and on both sides of the aisle. Then you hear about polls showing people disliking politicians but love their representatives.

            It’s related, in my view, and in some distant way, to what happens to people collectively: the so-called herd mentality, I guess. We just behave so differently as a group! Maybe it’s the separation. How often have you heard a driver yell “Asshole!” when another driver makes some sort of driving error? Frequently, I bet, yet face to face that would never leave the person’s mouth.

            And that ends my rambling on why people, collectively, behave poorly to one another.

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