
She was contributing writer for for 10 years before joining full-time. Įlizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. But agency sources told SpaceNews the extra money is not enough to launch on time in 2026.Įlizabeth Howell is the co-author of " Why Am I Taller ?" (ECW Press, 2022 with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams), a book about space medicine. 6 that the mission had passed a key decision point on its road to space.Ĭongress expressed concern about NASA's plans to delay the launch to 2028, noting the agency is behind on its mandate to find 90 percent of objects roughly 460 feet (140 meters) in diameter.

Near Earth Object Surveyor was one of the more notable changes, receiving $90 million (more than double the $40 million NASA request) in an effort to bring it into space sooner rather than later. Planetary science and heliophysics get slightly more than requested, while astrophysics, Earth science and biological and physics sciences suffer cuts," SpaceNews wrote. "Science overall gets $7.795 billion in the bill, nearly $200 million below the request.
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While NASA's exploration program and space operations effectively received full requests, science did not.

NASA's allocation is 5.6% more than the $24.041 billion the agency received in fiscal year 2022, but at current inflation rates the agency has fewer dollars to work with compared to last year.
