Obama's 2016 NASA Budget Status Quo, Funds Europa Mission

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 2, 2015 @09:51AM from the paying-bills dept.

MarkWhittington writes The Washington Post reported that the NASA portion of the president's 2016 budget proposal is basically status quo though it does provide further funding for a mission to Europa. A Europa probe is near and dear to the new chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee that funds NASA, Rep. John Culberson. However, the $18.5 billion budget proposal also funds the asteroid redirect mission, which has come under increasing fire from both Congress and the scientific community. The Houston Chronicle suggested that the final spending bill will be considerably different once congressional Republicans get through with it.

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Europa by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-02 09:53 · Score: 5, Funny

But I was told not to attempt any landings there
Re:More tax dollars up in smoke. by Grishnakh · 2015-02-02 11:31 · Score: 5, Informative

You're an idiot. Who do you think built the rockets that got men to the Moon? Hint: it wasn't NASA or the government, it was a company called Rocketdyne.
Today's private spaceflight companies like Orbital Sciences and SpaceX are mostly doing the same thing: they're vying for government contracts for things like ISS resupply missions (in addition to commercial contracts for satellite launches; they didn't have commercial communications or other satellites back in the 60s).