The full House of Representatives has passed a NASA budget for 2015 that gives the space agency $17.9 billion. The measure passed early Friday on a vote of 321-87, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) announced.
The budget gives NASA $250 million more than 2014 and gives the Space Launch System being developed in Huntsville and Orion capsule being developed in Houston “adequate resources to remain on schedule for upcoming flight demonstration milestones,” Brooks said.
The bill now goes to the Senate where U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa), a NASA supporter, is the vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Brooks is vice chair of the Space Subcommittee on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
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