Rep. Edwards Pins Hopes for More NASA Funding on Senate

摘要

U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.), who pushed hard against a Republican-authored NASA authorization bill currently awaiting a floor vote, said July 23 that it will probably be up to the Senate to undo provisions in that bill which call for NASA to scale back science and technology activities and focus on human spaceflight. On July 18, Republicans on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee overrode united Democrat opposition to pass a $16.9 billion NASA authorization bill (H.R. 2687) that would scale back science programs, Earth science in particular, and direct the agency to use the Moon as a steppingstone for manned missions to Mars.