Congressional Committee Approves $15.5 Billion Budget for NASA
Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2003, 06:00 CDT
Jul. 22--WASHINGTON--The House Appropriations Committee approved a $15.5 billion 2004 budget for NASA on Monday, although the allotment is almost certain to change because of additional costs related to the space shuttle Columbia accident.
The House budget blueprint includes what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration requested earlier this year for the space-shuttle and international space-station programs, and a planned orbital space plane to ferry astronauts to and from the station. The legislation, which still must pass the full House, calls for $7.8 billion for spaceflight, which includes those programs.
U.S. Rep. James Walsh, the New York Republican who chairs the subcommittee that controls NASA's budget, said lawmakers expect NASA to come back after the independent board probing the Feb. 1 Columbia accident delivers its report and give the committee an idea of what the agency needs to get the remaining three shuttles flying again.
The Senate has not yet considered the NASA budget.
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