U.S. House Appropriators Push Back on Obama's Planned Mars Cuts

摘要

House appropriators kicked off budget hearing season on Feb. 29 by grilling U.S. President Barack Obama's science adviser about proposed cuts to NASA's Mars exploration program. Some members of the House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee indicated they would seek to restore Mars funding when the panel begins drafting NASA spending legislation. Chief among these was the subcommittee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania. Fattah said he had "concerns about what we're going to do relative to planetary science and Mars.