A coalition of space advocacy groups mobilized their respective memberships to visit members of Congress in their home districts during the August recess in an effort to bolster support for NASA's new exploration-driven agenda. U.S. lawmakers face a jam-packed legislative calendar when they return to Washington in early September. Unfinished space business still pending before Congress includes: approval of NASA's 2006 budget, passage of the first NASA authorization bill in five years, and revisiting a 2000 law that bars NASA from buying Russian Soyuz launchers and spacecraft that will be needed for the international space station program starting next year.
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