Congress Warns NASA About Shortchanging SLS/Orion For Commercial Crew 170
FleaPlus writes "NASA and the White House have officially released their FY2013 budget proposal, the first step of the Congressional budget process. As mentioned previously on Slashdot, the proposal decreases Mars science funding (including robotic Mars missions) down to $361M, arguably due in part to cost overruns by the Webb telescope. The proposal also lowers funding for the in-house SLS rocket and Orion capsule to $2.8B, while doubling funding for the ongoing competitive development of commercial crew rockets/vehicles to $830M. The ranking member of the Senate science committee, Sen. Hutchison (R-TX), expressed her frustration with 'cutting SLS and Orion to pay for commercial crew,' as it would allegedly make it impossible for SLS to act as a backup for the commercial vehicles."
Re:Senator Kay Hutchinson, representing Texas (Score:4, Funny)
It is about "all that shit". No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Re:Senator Kay Hutchinson, representing Texas (Score:5, Funny)
In other words, "hands off my pork, dammit!".
Which is why we should only elect Jews and Muslims. They hate pork.