Sentences with phrase «space agency budget»

Mikulski, who chairs the Senate panel that oversees the space agency budget, ordered an independent review this summer.

Indeed, the proposed 2018 fiscal year space agency budget asks for $ 19.1 billion for all things civil space.

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The space agency is also in an ever - present budget pinch — and behind schedule in building its own super-heavy-lift rocket, called Space Launch Syspace agency is also in an ever - present budget pinch — and behind schedule in building its own super-heavy-lift rocket, called Space Launch SySpace Launch System.

Aside from the Marshall Space Flight Center, which employs around 6,000 people and has an annual budget of $ 2.5 billion, Hunstville is also home to the Redstone Arsental, a major army base that has offices for more than 60 federal agencies on its «campus.»

Tuesday's federal budget will deliver $ 50 million in «seed funding» to finally establish a dedicated Australian space agency and establish a presence in the industry.

Other agencies would also face reductions in the range of a quarter or more of their R&D budgets by FY 2002: Department of Agriculture, down 27.2 percent; Department of Energy nondefense R&D, down 24.9 percent; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, down 23.7 percent; Department of Transportation, down 23.5 percent.

The US agency's shrinking budget and growing space - telescope costs are squeezing other projects.

The space agency must find $ 156 million in its 2012 budget to pay the skyrocketing costs of the long - delayed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its flagship observatory and successor to the Hubble Space Telesspace agency must find $ 156 million in its 2012 budget to pay the skyrocketing costs of the long - delayed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), its flagship observatory and successor to the Hubble Space TelesSpace Telescope (JWST), its flagship observatory and successor to the Hubble Space TelesSpace Telescope.

ESA officials say they were quietly informed more than a month ago that budget problems would prevent the US space agency from providing an Atlas V rocket for the 2016 launch.

«The Canadian Space Agency will engage with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to define the terms of this continued participation,» the budget explains.

Within five years, human space exploration will have grown from just 10 percent of the agency's budget in 2006 to more than 40 percent.

The deal didn't cover NASA, however, so Congress's action — or lack of it — in effect freezes the space agency's 2007 budget at 2006 levels — $ 545 million below the president's $ 16.7 billion request for FY 2007.

On the human spaceflight side, which accounts for about half of the agency's budget, Congress continued to support both public and private approaches to getting humans into space.

The president's budget request for fiscal year 2011, not yet approved by Congress, would bring sweeping changes to the space agency

But he says it was the culmination of a soul - sapping and ultimately unsuccessful battle with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on how to accommodate the rising cost of the James Webb Space Telescope within an overall agency budget being squeezed by efforts to reduce federal spending and shrink the deBudget (OMB) on how to accommodate the rising cost of the James Webb Space Telescope within an overall agency budget being squeezed by efforts to reduce federal spending and shrink the debudget being squeezed by efforts to reduce federal spending and shrink the deficit.

NASA delivered the bad budget news — first reported this week by the BBC and Nature — on 16 August, says space agency spokesperson Trent Perrotto.

Bolden answered that if Congress were to grant the $ 858 million that NASA requested in the 2015 budget for the development of a commercial crew vehicle, the agency would expect to have access to the space station without reliance on the Russians by 2017.

Although that panel suggested a $ 3 billion boost to NASA's $ 18.7 - billion - a-year budget in order to take a firm next step in human space flight, Obama's support for a $ 1 billion bump next year represents a major coup for the agency given the ballooning deficit and the continuing recession.

(The space agency has not released the mission's budget, though it notes that the UAE has spent $ 5.4 billion so far on its space program.)

The president's sweeping endorsement of research, however, carefully avoids the fact that his 2013 budget would cut funding for NASA's Mars exploration program by nearly one - third and end the country's role in two Mars missions planned jointly with the European Space Agency for later in the decade.

Part of President Obama's FY 2014 budget request for NASA, the asteroid initiative capitalizes on activities across the agency's human exploration, space technology and science programs.

President Obama's proposed 2011 budget for NASA would cancel the agency's work on the Ares I rocket, intended to ferry astronauts to orbit after the space shuttle's planned retirement at the end of 2010.

All that puts pressure on the space agency's limited science budget.

At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Obama pledged his commitment to the space agency and to manned exploration of the solar system, at a time when his controversial budget proposal for NASA awaits approval from CongSpace Center in Florida, Obama pledged his commitment to the space agency and to manned exploration of the solar system, at a time when his controversial budget proposal for NASA awaits approval from Congspace agency and to manned exploration of the solar system, at a time when his controversial budget proposal for NASA awaits approval from Congress.

Within the human exploration program, which takes up roughly a quarter of NASA's overall budget, the agency continues to take a two - pronged approach to developing rockets that would return astronauts to space after the retirement of the Space Shuspace after the retirement of the Space ShuSpace Shuttle.

The budget also recommends canceling five NASA Earth science missions as well as the space agency's Office of Education.

The space agency fares relatively well in the budget request compared to other programs, subject to only a roughly one percent cut below FY 2016 levels.

March 26, 2014: Statement of Dr. John P. Holdren to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the United States House of Representatives on «The President's FY2015 Budget Request for Science Agencies».

President Barack Obama requested about $ 17.7 billion for NASA during his 2013 budget proposal, $ 59 million less than what the space agency received in 2012.

Hofstadter has taken part in various studies through the years that have investigated concepts for missions to Uranus which haven't been selected by the U.S. space agency to date, due to severe budget cuts to its planetary science programs.

One thing seems fairly certain about NASA's budget in Fiscal Year 2016 — a contentious clash is afoot between Congress and the Obama Administration on the space agency's funding priorities an...

On March 10, 2011, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on the FY2012 budget requests for research and development activities at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Despite a series of further proposed cuts to the space agency's planetary science budget in recent years by the White House, Congress has nevertheless been much more supportive of a Europa mission, appropriating more than $ 100 million during the same time period for the further development of a mission concept called the Europa Clipper, which is currently under study by NASA.

But it's OK, NASA wouldn't be expected to pick up the bill, which is fortunate as the U.S. space agency's budget stands at less than $ 18 billion (for 2012).

Scientists denounced the Republican - controlled U.S. House of Representatives» NASA budget proposal that would take money away from Earth studies, including those of climate change, and funnel it toward space exploration, a move critics say could hinder the space agency's ability to better understand global - warming trends.

They said the budget would «restore balance» to the space agency and allow NASA to remain a leader in space exploration.

The just - released budget for the US space agency has much that fans of planetary science can be grateful for, though the news is not all pos.

The Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on March 6, 2012 on the FY2013 budget requests for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency.

It could be a plum account for agency itching to get into the gaming space, especially as companies in the sector shift their focus — and likely marketing budgets — to digital distribution and sales.

The other would be to ramp up climate and space observations (instead of shredding budgets for relevant agencies), to boost the human capacity for resilience to climate extremes of all sorts, whatever the cause (a mantra on this blog), and to keep up a sustained energy quest to build a menu that works for the long haul — an imperative that is utterly sensible regardless of short - term ups and downs in temperature.

««The other would be to ramp up climate and space observations (instead of shredding budgets for relevant agencies), to boost the human capacity for resilience to climate extremes of all sorts...»

Sadly, although laws like the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, or AHERA, exist to regulate asbestos in public spaces like schools, agencies like the EPA are hamstrung to enforce laws due to budgeting and loopholes, allowing state agencies to apply for waivers when it comes to asbestos abatement.

Without clarity on agency budgets, federal tenants were forced to delay space decisions or execute short - term renewals to ride out the uncertainty.

The Office of Management and Budget also further expanded and defined the «Freeze the Footprint» policy, basically not allowing an agency to grow space unless it can reduce square footage somewhere else, and requiring more defined oversight and evaluations of office use.