Congress Approves $19 Billion NASA Budget


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Congress passed a vital NASA authorization bill late Wednesday, paving the way for an extra space shuttle flight next year and a new human spaceflight plan that takes aim at missions to an asteroid -- and ultimately even to Mars.

The NASA authorization bill approved by the House includes a $19 billion budget in 2011 for the U.S. space agency, and a total of $58 billion through 2013. It paves the way for several NASA projects, among them a new heavy-lift rocket for deep space missions and funding to aid the development of commercial space vehicles for eventual NASA use.

It also allows NASA to extend its role in the International Space Station through at least 2020 and sets aside $1.3 billion over three years to support the development of commercial spacecraft.

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Well this is great. I thought that it was pretty much guaranteed that their funding was being cut and that there would be no further missions? I'm not sure how this even ended up changing honestly. I just read an article this morning actually about how we weren't going to be doing any more space exploration. Did I misread somewhere? If we are continuing with space exploration, that is truly great, as a lot of technology has resulted from developments in space...

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I thought that NASA astronauts were gonna hitch rides with other countries and the current space program was scrapped (including a new ship).

But whatever, at least we can still see some more cool stuff.

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NASA needs to get away from large rockets and work on a power source that will work in space and is renewable.

Exactly. Spend it on research first. It seems to me like they are just slacking in space.

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Didn't click the link above, I see. That was my point...Obama's failed stimulus program cost more than the Iraq war

So if we're pointing fingers at wasteful spending, lets make sure we don't overlook the biggest waste.

Wouldn't of needed that stimulus if they didn't toss so much useless money at a useless war from Bush. That money could of been spent to kick the depression before it even hit.

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