The House Science, Space and lechnology Committee quickly approved the NASA Authorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 4412) by voice vote April 29, sending the policy-heavy bill - which sets no funding guidelines for appropriators - to the House floor. A manager's amendment approved during the April 29 markup added several policies to the bill that had not previously made it into the public eye. Besides what is arguably its key policy change - a directive that NASA exempt certain big-ticket programs from a requirement to reserve a portion of their development budgets for potential termination costs - the 2014 Authorization Act would: 1. Bar NASA from using any of its 2014 budget to pay the cost of canceling the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a telescope-equipped 747SP airplane that NASA proposed grounding as part of its 2015 budget request. Without tapping into the mission's 2014 science budget, NASA may not be able to wind the mission down by the agency's self-imposed deadline of Sept. 30, 2015, NASA Astrophysics Director Paul Hertz has said.
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机译：众议院科学，空间与语言学委员会于4月29日以语音表决的方式迅速批准了2014年《 NASA授权法》（H.R. R. 4412），将政策繁重的法案（未为拨款者设置任何融资指南）发送至众议院。在4月29日加价期间批准的经理修正案为该法案增加了几项以前未引起公众注意的政策。除了可以说是其主要政策变更之外，NASA的一项指令是免除某些大型项目的要求，以保留部分开发预算用于潜在的终止费用。2014年授权法案将：1.禁止NASA使用其任何一项2014年预算用于支付取消平流层红外天文台的费用，这是一架配备望远镜的747SP飞机，美国宇航局在其2015年预算申请中建议将其停飞。 NASA天体物理学主任Paul Hertz表示，如果不利用该任务的2014年科学预算，NASA可能无法在该机构自行设定的2015年9月30日这一最后期限之前将任务结束。
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