FY 2013 Appropriations Committee Reports: NASA
AIP FYI: FY 2013 Appropriations Committee Reports: NASA
“Not surprisingly, considering the size of NASA’s budget and its wide range of programs, the appropriators included extensive language in the House and Senate reports accompanying the funding bills regarding NASA. This FYI provides report language regarding the agency’s science program. Language within each report on all programs stands, unless there is a conflict that will be resolved in the final conference report. This final conference report, likely to be written in late fall, will also resolve differences in recommended funding levels.”
The level of Congressional micromanagement is remarkable.
DS3,
“remarkable” is not the word I would have used, but there’s no point in getting deleted.
Just to rub it in further, please don’t anybody ever again tell me that Congress doesn’t control NASA.
Steve
Using the Senate numbers (which are most likely to rule), the Cross-Agency Support budget ($2,822.5B) is 4½ times the Space Technology budget ($0.651B). This suggests to me that nothing has changed for the better — the important things space-wise (Space Technology) are still being treated as very low priority, while the more political things (Cross-Agency Support) which (in my opinion) is generally a drain rather than a benefit for NASA gets all kinds of money out of NASA’s budget. We all might a well quit thinking and talking about multi-planet species and colonizing, and even going past LEO because the science and technology development that is needed to even start such things is still getting only pocket with which to build our future.
Steve
Please note: My last sentence above should have been: getting only pocket change. For some reason Disqus won’t let me edit anything since their last “upgrade.”
Steve