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NASA Buys More Soyuz Flights Since Congress Constantly Cuts Commercial Crew
Source: NASA Watch
NASA Notifies Congress about Space Station Contract Modification with Russia
"NASA Administrator Charles Bolden sent a letter to Congress Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 informing members that, due to continued reductions in the president's funding requests for the agency's Commercial Crew Program over the past several years, NASA was forced to extend its existing contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) to transport American astronauts to the International Space Station. This contract modification is valued at about $490 million dollars. The letter was delivered to the leadership of the congressional committees that oversee NASA. The full text of the letter follows:"
NASA signing $490M contract with Russia, The Hill
"The new contract extension is required because Congress has not fully funded the administration's budget requests since 2010. For fiscal year 2011, for example, Obama asked Congress for $500 million for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Congress only gave it $321 million. The next year, Obama asked for $850 million and Congress only allocated $400 million. Due to those low funding levels for five consecutive years, NASA had to ask Congress for more than $1 billion for next year. A spokeswoman for NASA said if Obama's request is fully funded, and if NASA can fully pay its contracts, the U.S. commercial vehicles could still be ready by the 2017 date."
Read more: http://nasawatch.com/archives/2015/08/nasa-buys-more.html
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NASA Buys More Soyuz Flights Since Congress Constantly Cuts Commercial Crew (Original Post)
bananas
Aug 2015
OP
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)1. How far we have fallen as a nation. n/t
christx30
(6,241 posts)2. Beating the Russians to the moon,
down to begging them for rides into orbit. Breaks my heart. I hope things get better for us.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)3. Damned old 'soviet' junk, that Soyuz, anyway... eom
miyazaki
(2,243 posts)6. In other words, that junk is one of the most successful rockets ever made.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)8. Whatever works, comrade
Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)4. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, bananas.
elias49
(4,259 posts)5. The 1% don't make money from space exploration
so cut the funding. Short-sighted in the extreme.
Keep squeezing Russia and English will be a distant second language on the International Space Station.
We reap what we sow.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)9. trek them the moon is made our of cocaine. there will be express trips 5x a day
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)7. It is completely idiotic that our space program relies on another nation
Our space program use to be one of the biggest and brightest and it is now relegated to hitchhiking with the Russians. Yet another thing we have to thank W. and the Republicans for.