The fiscal year 2016 spending bill that the full House Appropriations Committee (HAC) was expected to markup May 20 proposes a big cut to the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) while providing a large boost to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS).The HAC commerce, justice and science (CJS) subcommittee approved May 14 via voice vote its portion of a spending bill that recommends $1 billion for CCP, $244 million less than what NASA requested. It also recommends $2.3 billion for SLS, nearly…
House Appropriators Propose Big Cut To Commercial Crew, Big Boost For SLS
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Rich Abott
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