• Commercial Crew Program to get full funding, NASA 2016 budget released
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[quote]The final fiscal year 2016 budget bill provides $1.24 billion to the agency for its commercial crew program, the exact amount requested by President Obama in his budget proposal. NASA administrator Charles Bolden has said without the full request, efforts by SpaceX and Boeing to develop their spacecraft will be further delayed. Earlier iterations of both the House and Senate budget bills had provided hundreds of millions of dollars less for commercial crew. The final budget deal comes after protracted negotiations between the House and Senate. It allocates a total of $19.3 billion to NASA for the coming fiscal year, which is $756 million above the President's request. The House and Senate are both expected to pass the final bill later this week. [url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/final-nasa-budget-bill-fully-funds-commercial-crew-and-earth-science/[/url] [/quote] maybe it took actual rocket scientists to explain economics to congress, but refusing to fully fund it would have meant we would have had to book an extra 3 years worth of tickets for the soyuz costing us way more in the long run. Once the commercial crew program is actually sending crews to the ISS, there's been talks about trading seats with the Russian space program instead of paying for seats. hopefully 2016 goes stellar for space-x and boeing so we can return americans to space on american vehicles
That's awesome. I was out at Kennedy Space Center yesterday, and both SpaceX and Boeing are doing a lot out there right now. We're looking at a new age of human spaceflight, ten times as significant as the Shuttle program.
[QUOTE=woolio1;49329175]That's awesome. I was out at Kennedy Space Center yesterday, and both SpaceX and Boeing are doing a lot out there right now. We're looking at a new age of human spaceflight, ten times as significant as the Shuttle program.[/QUOTE] whats important is that space-x has fundamentally altered the way NASA does contracting, and for the better, they don't have spiraling costs and constant delays, they don't run like a defense contractor, they run like a company, and hopefully in the coming years with changing restrictions, space-x will show the rest of the world's launch market exactly what needs to be done to bring low cost space launches
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