Good news future Mars explorers!NASA ’s budgetfor next year exceed through the Republican - conduce Commerce , Science , and Transportation Committee last Wednesday , after being sanction by the House of Representatives before this year .
The budget will now have to be voted by the whole Senate and then signed into law by President Obama . If the $ 19.5 - billion budget for 2017 is approved in full , it will be a crucial stepping Isidor Feinstein Stone on our way to Mars .
In thebill ’s text , approved by the committee , there is a considerable slice to be used for the Orion faculty and the Space Launch System , which are the ejector seat and the rocket that will in the next 25 years take a gang to the Red Planet .
“ Fifty - five years after President Kennedy challenged the nation to put a man on the moon , the Senate is challenging NASA to put humans on Mars . The antecedence that we ’ve laid out for NASA in this bill strike out the beginning of a new geological era of American spaceflight , ” popular Senator Bill Nelson said in astatementfrom the committee .
There were worries that the whole US science budgetwould be frozenand used in the latest political machinations , so it ’s corking to see a bipartisan consensus on the grandness of NASA ’s work . This is pretty crucial in an election year .
“ We have seen in the past the grandness of stability and predictability in NASA and space geographic expedition – that whenever one has a change in administration , we have seen the chaos that can be cause by the cancellation of major broadcast , ” pronounce Republican Senator Ted Cruz , who chaired the Science , Space and Competitiveness Subcommittee .
“ NASA is at a crossroads , and this commission is acting , and I desire the full Congress will act , to ensure stableness and predictability going onward . ”
Mars is only one part of the budget . The bill also includes provisions to continue the robotlike geographic expedition of the Solar System , monitor Earth ’s mood and atmospheric condition , the launching of new space observatories , and also maintaining the low - solid ground orbit workplace done on the International Space Station .
