Republicans in House want to shift NASA’S climate funds back to Manned Spaceflight
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The space war over NASA continues: A group of House Republicans want to cut NASA’s climate research budget — increased significantly by Obama — and put it back into manned spaceflight.
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The space war over NASA continues: A group of House Republicans want to cut NASA’s climate research budget — increased significantly by Obama — and put it back into manned spaceflight.
Not real surprising. The republican congress has been discontinuing global warming study programs etc, so their effort to cut the one out of NASA is a no brainer – as well as being a good idea. However freeing up $1.8 B for manned space would be huge! It’s about 6 times what was authorized for commercial crew development (and commercial crew is likely to be canceled). Its more then what was bid to continue shuttle ops for another 6-7 years.
Likely the $1.8 B will just be pulled completely from NASA rather then redirected, but then congress has shown much more interest in sustaining NASA then expected.
Course switching the $1.5+B to support USA’s shuttle extension would be great – and might make political sence as well.
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