House bill threatens $1 billion in NASA funding cuts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The proposed $16.8 billion funding package would focus NASA\u2019s long-term efforts on Mars exploration, set pre-determined milestones for development of commercial manned spacecraft \u2014 including a non-negotiable deadline for first flight \u2014 and sharply cut funding for Earth sciences. \u201cThis authorization bill reflects a sincere effort to maximize return to the taxpayer while working to protect America\u2019s role as the world leader in space exploration,\u201d Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, said in opening remarks. \u201cIt is realistic and reflective of the hard choices we must make as a nation and provides support for agreed-upon priorities. The stark reality is that if we fail to reform mandatory spending, discretionary funding for space, science and research will continue to shrink.\u201d He said the proposed \u201cauthorization discussion draft\u201d was consistent with the 2011 Budget Control Act, mandating automatic spending cuts \u2014 sequestration \u2014 in the absence of legislation to trim $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit. via House bill threatens $1 billion in NASA funding cuts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[361,1091,1205],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-budget","tag-mars","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}