NASA TV/IAN O’NEILL, DISCOVERY NEWS
By Discovery News
NASA on Monday hailed a proposal by President Barack Obama to boost spending for the US space agency and announced plans for a mission to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
The agency’s administrator, Charles Bolden, said at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that NASA has made strides in the journey toward Mars—where a human mission is planned for 2024—with a “near-flawless” flight test of its new Orion deep space vehicle.
He also heralded success in handing over International Space Station resupply missions to commercial partners, with the first crew flights on the horizon in 2017.
Although Obama’s overall $4 trillion US budget plan faces an uphill climb through Republican-controlled Congress, support for the space agency tends to reach across bipartisan lines.
“President Obama is proposing a fiscal year 2016 budget of $18.5 billion dollars for NASA, building on the significant investments the administration has made in America’s space program over the past six years,” Bolden said in an address broadcast online and shown at NASA locations across the United States.
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