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Financial Request for NASA's Centennial Challenge Goes Back to Congress
NASA, Congress Kick Off 1st Round of Budget Fight
Senate Panel Recommends Funding Boost for NASA
By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 22 September 2004
10:53 am ET
WASHINGTON -- NASA?s vision for space exploration received a boost in the Senate Sept. 22 when a budget panel approved $16.38 billion for the agency for next year, $200 million more than the White House requested.
The Senate Appropriations Committee had been poised to recommend providing just $15.579 million for NASA next year, $200 more than the agency?s 2004 budget and some $665 million less than the White House requested. But an amendment offered by Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) to add $800 million of so-called emergency funding for the space shuttle program and a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission was approved, resulting in the higher number.
The space shuttle program would receive $500 million of the added funding to help defray the cost of returning the fleet to flight status. The remaining $300 million would go toward the early planning for a robotic mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Financial Request for NASA's Centennial Challenge Goes Back to Congress
NASA, Congress Kick Off 1st Round of Budget Fight
Senate Panel Recommends Funding Boost for NASA
By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 22 September 2004
10:53 am ET
WASHINGTON -- NASA?s vision for space exploration received a boost in the Senate Sept. 22 when a budget panel approved $16.38 billion for the agency for next year, $200 million more than the White House requested.
The Senate Appropriations Committee had been poised to recommend providing just $15.579 million for NASA next year, $200 more than the agency?s 2004 budget and some $665 million less than the White House requested. But an amendment offered by Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) to add $800 million of so-called emergency funding for the space shuttle program and a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission was approved, resulting in the higher number.
The space shuttle program would receive $500 million of the added funding to help defray the cost of returning the fleet to flight status. The remaining $300 million would go toward the early planning for a robotic mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
