[Geology2] NASA asteroid mission is new focus of budget debate in Congress

From today's Washington Post

NASA asteroid mission is new focus of budget debate in Congress

By Joel Achenbach, Published: July 20 

President Obama's proposed asteroid-lassoing mission, a key piece of NASA's plan for human spaceflight in the next decade, is trying to make it through the House of Representatives without getting blown to smithereens.

Republicans have taken dead aim at the mission, while also pushing for sequester-level NASA spending and sharp cuts in the agency's Earth science funding, much of which goes to research on climate change.

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