FY2014 Budget Request to be Released Wednesday as House Holds Hearing on NEOs
President Obama will submit his FY2014 budget request to Congress tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10.
Word is that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will hold a press conference at 12:30 pm ET to formally release the budget request. NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden will hold a media teleconference at 3:00 pm ET that will be available on NASA’s news audio website.
NASA will post details of its request on the NASA budget website at 1:00 pm ET.
Unless it’s a short hearing, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will be in the middle of part two of its hearings on the threat to Earth posed by asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them close to Earth (collectively called Near Earth Objects or NEOs), at that time. The hearing is set to begin at 2:00 pm ET. The budget request reportedly will include funds to further studies of the idea of sending a robotic probe to capture an asteroid, bring it to the Earth-Moon system, and send astronauts to study it. Hopefully the hearing will elucidate what NASA has in mind. JPL’s Don Yeomans is one of the witnesses.
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