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Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Approves Big Cut To Commercial Crew

Pat Host

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

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Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Approves Big Cut To Commercial Crew

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The Senate Appropriations commerce, justice and science and related agencies (CJS) subcommittee Wednesday approved its version of a fiscal year 2016 spending bill that provides nearly $344 million less for Commercial Crew than NASA requested, according to a subcommittee statement.The panel, overall, approved $18.3 billion for NASA, $229 million less than requested but $29 million more than enacted for FY ’15. The subcommittee also approved $1.9 billion for the Space Launch System (SLS), $544 million more than NASA requested and…

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