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- Subject: fyi #113: SACR: NASA Space Science
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- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:50:35 GMT
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- Public Information Division
- American Institute of Physics
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- Senate Appropriations Committee Report: NASA Space Science
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- FYI No. 113, August 18, 1992
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- The Senate Appropriations Committee has produced the report, S.
- Rept. 102-356, to accompany its version of H.R. 5679, the VA, HUD,
- Independent Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1993. The
- Committee recommendation with respect to NASA is as follows
- (details of the recommendation for Space Station Freedom will be
- given in FYI #114):
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- NASA:
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- Appropriations, 1992 $14,316,050,000
- Administration Request, 1993 14,993,027,000
- House Bill 13,633,390,980
- Senate Committee Recommendation 14,153,200,000
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- Below are selected portions of the report as it pertains to space
- science and applications. All amounts are changes made to the
- President's budget request:
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- -$7,500,000 from the advanced x ray astrophysics facility.
- The Committee believes that NASA has acted appropriately in
- restructuring the AXAF mission into two separate flight
- opportunities.
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- +$30,500,000 to physics and astronomy payload and instrument
- development for the gravity-probe b mission.
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- -$13,500,000 from the search for extra terrestrial
- intelligence mission [the full request].
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- +$10,000,000 to space biological sciences for research and
- flight experiment opportunities to implement the NASA-NIH
- biomedical protocol in microgravity sciences only.
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- -$60,000,000 from materials processing. To strengthen the
- agency's relationship with NIH, particularly in biomedical sciences
- for microgravity flight opportunities, NASA should consider
- consolidating common functions in both the life sciences and
- materials processing divisions.
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- +$694,300,000 for space science mission operations and data
- analysis only, to be allocated as follows:
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- $420,900,000 for physics and astronomy, a reduction of
- $20,000,000 below the budget request. The Committee recommends the
- full request for Hubble Space Telescope operations, servicing, and
- data analysis;
- $161,300,000 for planetary exploration, $9,000,000 below
- the budget request;
- $112,100,000 for Earth science and applications,
- $30,000,000 below the budget request.
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- +414,100,000 for space science and applications research and
- analysis only, to be allocated as follows:
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- $70,400,000 for physics and astronomy, $11,000,000 below
- the budget request;
- $51,600,000 for life sciences, $4,000,000 below the
- budget request;
- $100,400,000 for planetary exploration, $6,500,000 below
- the budget request;
- $174,200,000 for Earth science and applications;
- $17,500,000 for materials sciences, the same amount as
- the budget request.
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- "The Committee has created separate program elements within space
- science and applications for mission operations and data analysis
- [MO&DA], and for research and analysis [R&A], due to its ongoing
- concern about NASA's willingness to use these funds to accommodate
- cost overruns in flight development projects. This practice
- hinders sound contract management by giving program managers access
- to reserve funds over and above what they have initially budgeted.
- In addition, it limits the scientific analysis done through funds
- in these two areas."
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- "The Committee has included the full amount requested, $391,000,000
- for the Earth observing system [EOS]. The Committee notes the
- enormous effort which NASA and the Office of Space Science and
- Applications have undertaken to restructure this important project.
- Nevertheless, future restraints on Federal spending make it likely
- that the fully restructured baseline for the EOS project,
- $11,000,000,000 through fiscal year 2000, is not attainable. As a
- result, the Committee directs NASA to adjust the EOS program..."
- [The Committee report caps the total project cost of EOS, through
- 2000, at $8,000,000,000, exclusive of construction of facility,
- launch, and tracking requirements. The report also recommends that
- NASA "adopt a common spacecraft approach for all EOS platforms
- after the initial EOS AM-1 spacecraft."]
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- Other report sections include: Space transportation capability
- development, Commercial programs, Aeronautical research and
- technology, Space research and technology, Other programs, and
- Space station.
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- The full Senate intends to vote on the VA/HUD bill when it returns
- from recess on September 8.
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