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NASA is currently paying Russia about $76 million a round-trip seat to transport astronauts to the ISS through 2017 and provide return services into 2018 under a deal signed last April. NASA is counting on Boeing and SpaceX crew capsules now in development to be ready to start ferrying astronauts to and from the ISS by the end of 2017, ending the U.S. space agency’s dependence on Russia.
But in releasing its 2016 budget proposal Feb. 2, NASA officials said that timetable depends on Congress fully funding its $1.2 billion commercial crew request, which represents an increase of more than 50 percent from the $805 million Congress approved for 2015.
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Last Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden testified before the Senate's Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, an authorizing committee with oversight over the U.S. space agency (though not over its budget).
The topic was the White House's 2016 budget request, which, despite providing a 2.9% increase to NASA's overall budget, requests no money at all for continued operations of MER Opportunity and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) pressed Bolden on the decision to end Opportunity's mission prematurely. During the resulting back and forth, Administrator Bolden made what I consider a surprising statement regarding Opportunity's value:
«We cannot continue to operate instruments and missions whose time has passed, because I won't be able to put something like InSight on Mars in 2016…I have to make choices»
Убить марсоход Opportunity. Миссия выполнима