Senate Approves “Compromise” NASA Funding Bill
Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center
Senate passes NASA “compromise†bill to build new rocketship
Orlando Sentinel
The Senate Thursday night passed a compromise NASA authorization bill that would see the agency get back on track developing a new heavy lift rocket while providing some funding for commercial rocket companies to fly humans to space.
The bill, championed by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D- Florida, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, broke a stalemate that started in February when President Barack Obama said he would cancel the NASA-run Constellation moon-rocket program and instead use commercial companies to send astronauts into low Earth orbit.
“Senate passage of this comprehensive legislation is a critical milestone that will boost America’s human spaceflight program,†Hutchison said in a statement. The bill is also supported by Senators John D. Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, David Vitter, R-Lousiana., and George LeMieux, R-Florida…
Administration officials say that the White House is neither supporting nor opposing the bill.
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