The fiscal year 2016 spending bill that the full House Appropriations Committee (HAC) will markup Wednesday 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 $1 billion more…
