House subcommittee on Science and Related Agencies has marked up its appropriations bill
Looking good...
They give NASA and extra $290 million, majority for Science.
Sounds like they also plan to put in the barriers between line item spending in NASA, to preclude some divisions (exploration) raiding others (science and aeronautics).
We'll see what the Senate does.
NSF is on target for doubling, according to this, which would be another decent sized increase in its budget. Again both details in which divisions get the moolah will matter, as will what the Senate has to say. But this is a good, and early, start.
Oh and NIST does good as does climate science, by the sound of it.
Next up NIH and DoE
More like this
Ken Ham has been planning to build this colossal boondoogle in Kentucky, a life-sized replica of Noah's Ark.
It's called the Reincarnation Bank.
Ken Ham is currently hawking his new book, Already Compromised, in which he whines about the way universities — even many bible colleges — don't take the Old Testament absolutely literally.
A reader (thanks Jen) alerted me to this article on Forbes, The FDA's Black Box.
Increased spending on Science will mean that the Administration will have to hire more political minders and editors.
Spoiler alert!
$500 million in projected cuts for NIH.
Linked goodness.
Ouch, that will hurt the bio/med community
DoE House bill looks good right now, but the White House has said they'll veto.
On the other hand the WH wants the DoE science office to get its increase, it is the rest they differ about.
If pressure from the public and science community can get a Hubble repair mission, perhaps it can help other science (like the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.)