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Wednesday’s CSExtra features reports on Tuesday’s House action on the White House’s $19 billion budget request for NASA, which includes the controversial termination of the Constellation Program. The Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee agreed to the $19 billion top line for NASA. But the panel decided to defer action on Exploration spending until the House and Senate authorization committees agree to a blue print. Meanwhile, Huntsville tallies more Constellation lay offs. Discovery.com makes the case for a human mission to an asteroid. Astronomers offer photographic evidence of a planet circling another star.
1. From the Orlando Sentinel: The Subcommittee’s deferral means NASA is unlikely to receive a 2011 spending plan until after the November elections. The authorization process is mired down in the debate between the White House and Congress over President Obama’s plans to cancel the Constellation Program. The $19 billion top line for NASA represents a $276 million increase over 2010 spending. NASA is among a number of federal agencies unlikely to have a budget until after the elections anyway, the Sentinel notes. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-nasa-hearing-vote-06302010-20100630,0,4088273.story
A. From spacepolitics.com: Frustrated House appropriators take no action on NASA’s exploration budget. “Until that program is defined through an enacted authorization, this Subcommittee has no business in appropriating even more funding for uncertain program outcomes,” says U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-WV, the subcommittee chairman. “Accordingly, this bill makes the funding for Human Space Exploration available only after the enactment of such authorization legislation.” http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/06/29/house-appropriators-defer-on-human-spaceflight-plans/
B. From Spacepolicyonline.com: The appropriations subcommittee spares NASA’s COTS, or Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, from the Exploration restriction. Work on developing commercial cargo delivery services for the space station can proceed.
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/pages/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1004:house-subcommittee-takes-no-position-on-obama-exploration-plan-restricts-availability-of-funds&catid=67:news&Itemid=27
C. From Florida Today: Both the House and Senate authorization committees with jurisdiction over NASA must agree on a road map before NASA exploration funds can be spent.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100630/NEWS02/6300332/NASA+s+budget+gets+a+boost
2. From the Huntsville Times: The newspaper counts 300 lay offs in the last week as funding slows for NASA’s Constellation Program.
http://blog.al.com/space-news/2010/06/102_huntsville_constellation_w.html
A. From the Huntsville Times: Alabama’s growing aerospace sector accounts for 158,000 jobs and a payroll of $8.4 billion, according to a study by the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
http://blog.al.com/space-news/2010/06/aerospace_and_defense_mean_nea.htmll
3. From Spaceflightnow.com: Satellites from NASA, the European Space Agency and commercial remote sensing services track the Gulf Oil spill as the growing slick reaches the U.S. coastline.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/29oilspill/
A. From Space News: The European Space Agency’s Earth observation program faces a funding shortfall. Satellites already under development are affected.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/100629-european-earth-observation-funding-shortfall.html
4. From Discovery.com: Making the case for human space flight in tough economic times and a justification for a human mission to an asteroid.
http://news.discovery.com/space/visiting-an-asteroid-whats-the-point.html
5. From Space.com: Astronomers verify the first direct picture of a planet circling another star. This one is eight times the mass of Jupiter, and its orbiting a sun like star. The planet is 500 light years away. Temperatures on this planet range up to 2,700 degrees. The distant planet photo was made by the Gemini Observatory using telescopes in Hawaii and Chile.
http://www.exploredeepspace.com/scienceastronomy/first-alien-planet-photographed-confirmed-100629.html
6. From Spaceflightnow.com: A Russian Progress cargo capsule is scheduled to lift off Wednesday with supplies for the International Space Station.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp24/100630progress38p/
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