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Senate's NASA Authorization Bill Threatens NewSpace Industry PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jeff Krukin   
Wednesday, 14 July 2010

The FY2011 NASA Authorization Bill will come-up for vote in the Senate tomorrow, July 15th.  Two programs that provide vital support to the NewSpace entrepreneurial space industry are in mortal danger of being slashed or completely cut.  These are the Commercial Crew Program and Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) Program.

If you believe in NewSpace, then you must call your Senators if you live in any of the states listed in the rest of this entry.

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Sen. Nelson's NASA authorization markup kills the CRuSR line item. Yesterday Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico introduced an amendment that would bolster this small but high-profile program, designed to allow students, small companies, and researchers to fly experiments on-board new commercial suborbital space vehicles such as Virgin Galactic or XCOR Aerospace.  The amendment would ensure that this program, known as Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR), would be fully funded at
$15 million per year and report directly to NASA's Chief Technology Office to give it high-profile status.
 
Please call your Senators to support the Udall Amendment, call Sen. Nelson's office to support it, and ask colleagues to do the same.

 

A new authorization bill for NASA includes major cuts to commercial paceflight, but Senator Warner has offered an amendment to restore those cuts and move commercial space forward.
 
The NASA Authorization Bill being proposed cuts the proposed Commercial rew Program by $2.1 billion (up to 66%), seriously affecting commercial pace efforts by such companies as SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Boeing, and Orbital Sciences. Senator Warner's amendment will restore full funding to the program, but he needs YOUR help to get support from other Senators!
 
The Warner Amendment will be voted on Thursday morning. Now is the time to call your Senator to say, "Please support the Warner Amendment for commercial spaceflight that will create over 10,000 jobs, and reduce our dependence on Russia!"

 

The phone numbers for each Senator on the committee are below, so please check to see if you, your parents, your friends, etc. are a resident of one of those states!

_Majority_
Rockefeller (D-West Virginia)-Chair - 202-224-6472
Inouye (D-Hawaii) - 202-224-3934
Kerry (D-Massachusetts) - 202-224-2742
Dorgan (D-North Dakota) - 202-224-2551
Boxer (D-California) - 202-224-3553
Nelson (D-Florida) - 202-224-5274
Cantwell (D-Washington State) - 202-224-3441
Lautenberg (D-New Jersey) - 202-224-3224
Pryor (D-Arkansas) - 202-224-2353
McCaskill (D-Missouri) - 202-224-6154
Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) - 202-224-3244
Udall (D-New Mexico) - 202-224-6621
Warner (D-Virginia) - 202-224-2023
Begich (D-Alaska) - 202-224-3004
 
_Minority_
Hutchison (R-Texas)-Ranking Member - 202-224-5922
Snowe (R-Maine) - 202-224-5344
Ensign (R-Nevada) - 202-224-6244
DeMint (R-South Carolina) - 202-224-6121
Thune (R-South Dakota) - 202-224-2321
Wicker (R-Mississippi) - 202-224-6253
LeMieux (R-Florida) - 202-224-3041
Isakson (R-Georgia) - 202-224-3643
Vitter (R-Louisiana) - 202-224-4623
Brownback (R-Kansas) - 202-224-6521
Johanns (R-Nebraska) - 202-224-4224
 

Let's exercise our democratic rights and freedoms.

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