House Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2013 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Bill (NASA) “National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – NASA is funded at $17.6 billion in the bill, […]
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Putting NASA's Budget Into Perspective
It’s Tax Day — Send in Your $.005 for NASA, Discovery “I’ve always wondered why are we cutting it? Why aren’t we doubling it? Even then, it wouldn’t be a […]
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JPL, Budget Cuts, and Jobs
NASA budget might have less space for JPL’s planetary science, LA Times “U.S. Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) has pledged to fight the cuts, and he grilled NASA Administrator Charles […]
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Bolden Invokes Inverse Washington Monument Ploy
NASA administrator warns agency may have to cut ‘everything’ but top 3 priorities if no budget deal “NASA Administrator Charles Bolden warned Wednesday that, unless Congress reaches a deal with […]
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Multiple Hearings on NASA Today
Keith’s note: Commercial space is almost certainly going to come up at each of these hearings. I wonder if the Commercial Spaceflight Federation will continue to be silent as they […]
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Penny4NASA
“Tell the United States Congress and President Barack Obama that you want NASA’s annual budget increased to one penny on the taxpayer dollar. Tell them that making NASA 1% of […]
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House Appropriations Hearing on NASA Budget
Hearing Notes: Charles Bolden Testifies on NASA’s FY 2013 Budget “Bolden made frequent attempts to defend the Administration’s cuts to planetary science – at one point saying that part of […]
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NASA Budget Testimony Word Clouds: Bolden Vs Tyson
Keith’s note: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson both testified before the Senate on NASA’s FY 2013 budget the other day. Simple word clouds reveal starkly different […]
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GAO Assessment of NASA Includes a Look at Webb's Overruns
NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects, GAO “Of the 15 projects in implementation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reported the most significant cost and schedule changes since last […]
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Let's Double NASA's Budget
Neil deGrasse Tyson to Jon Stewart: “Your Earth is spinning the wrong direction.”, io9 “Last night, Jon Stewart had astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Daily Show to talk about […]