NASA’s leader defended its diminished budget proposal before Congress yesterday, facing accusations that the space agency is “over-prioritizing” its new commercial crew effort. NASA Administration Charles Bolden told Senate and House committees that President Barack Obama’s $17.7 billion plan for the agency in fiscal year 2013, a slight drop of $59 million from FY ’12 levels, “will enable NASA to execute the balanced program of science, space exploration, technology, and aeronautics agreed to by the president and a bipartisan majority…
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