NASA is poised to see an increased budget for 2015, after the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan spending bill late Thursday. Under the so-called "Cromnibus" bill, the federal space agency's overall budget will rise by 2 percent to $18 billion next year — an increase of $364 million from current levels, and $500 million more than NASA requested in March. The $1.1 trillion spending bill, passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avert a government shutdown, now moves on to the Senate, which is expected to vote this weekend.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident
sweet, hopefully NASA put it to get use :)
It's probably going to go to blowing up more rocket ships since they can't build any correctly.
Here we go , instertellar is happening /jk
My Aunt gets to keep her job.
(really, I live in FL)
With all the money and time they spend advertising themselves with cameras and space selfies, that doesn't surprise me. Impressing congressmen with all sorts of superficial things apparently isn't too difficult.