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Panel Seeks NASA Boost, Commercial Crew Oversight

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, July 17th, 2013

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A Senate panel unveiled a budget plan Tuesday that would grant NASA more funding than House lawmakers are proposing and also increase oversight of efforts to develop a commercial spaceflight industry. The Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee (SAC-CJS) marked up on Tuesday a multi-agency appropriations bill that would grant NASA $18 billion in fiscal year 2014. That’s $1.4 billion more for the space agency than in a version of the bill the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) will mark…

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