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Space

Senate Panel Backs Space Station Funding Beyond 2025

By Marc Selinger

Friday, June 15th, 2018

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Senate Panel Backs Space Station Funding Beyond 2025

The International Space Station. Photo: NASA

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) has rebuffed the Trump administration’s proposal to end federal funding for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025.In a new report explaining its fiscal year 2019 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill, the committee said it supports maintaining ISS funding “beyond 2025 until a viable alternative exists to achieve NASA’s objectives” in low Earth orbit (LEO). Opponents of the administration’s proposal say the orbiting laboratory, whose prime contractor is Boeing [BA], provides significant research benefits and should…

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