By Emelie Rutherford A key Senate budget-writing panel endorsed a NASA budget July 22 that largely heeds a new compromise between lawmakers and the White House to build a heavy-lift rocket by 2016 and salvage some aspects of the ill-fated Constellation space-flight program. The Senate Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies subcommittee (SAC-CJS), though, added more funds than NASA authorizers did for the accelerated plan to build the heavy-lift rocket sooner than President Barack Obama previously proposed. The subcommittee…
Senate NASA Appropriators Back Accelerated Plan For Heavy-Lift Rocket
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