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President Obama Threatens To Veto Cuts To NASA Budget

May 8, 2012

A 2013 spending bill that would fund NASA’s commercial crew program below the level the president requested drew a veto threat May 7 as the U.S. House of Representatives was preparing to begin debate on the proposal. The $51 billion Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Act for 2013 (H.R. 5326) that the Republican-led House began debating May 8 would fund NASA at $17.56 billion next year — the lowest level since 2008 and some $150 million less than President Barack Obama requested for the agency. NASA’s commercial crew program — a two-year-old effort that aims to foster development by 2017...

Obama Lies, NASA Dies

January 31, 2011

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Written by: Ken Kremer Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana, left, and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Orlando, address human spaceflight during a forum Friday March 19 at Brevard Community College’s campus in Cocoa, Florida. (Rik Jesse, FLORIDA TODAY) “The President made a mistake,” said Sen. Bill Nelson (D) of Florida in referring to President Barack Obama’s recent decision to completely terminate Project Constellation from the 2011 NASA Budget. “Because that is the perception. That he killed the space program.” “I know him to be a vigorous supporter of the manned space program”, Nelson added. “But he certainly has...

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