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Topic:	NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]The President devoted his weekly address to the signing of the NASA Transition Authorization Act: <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZGt6lkLApuo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="arial, helvetica">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">For the first time in nearly six and a half years, Congress has passed a <A HREF="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/442/text" TARGET=_blank>NASA authorization bill</A> with the approval of such a bill March 7 in the House of Representatives, <A HREF="http://spacenews.com/house-passes-nasa-authorization-bill/" TARGET=_blank>reports SpaceNews</A>. <BLOCKQUOTE><I>The bill authorizes $19.5 billion in spending for NASA in fiscal year 2017. More importantly, it includes a number of policy provisions directing NASA’s activities. They range from development of a detailed plan for NASA’s human exploration programs, with the long-term goal of sending humans to Mars, to giving NASA the ability to establish long-term medical monitoring of former astronauts...<P>The bill is nearly identical to a bill the Senate passed in December, just after the House adjourned for the year. The new version includes a few provisions not found in the earlier one, including language directing NASA <A HREF="http://spacenews.com/nasa-authorization-bill-calls-for-orion-iss-study/" TARGET=_blank>to study</A> the use of the Orion spacecraft as a crew transfer vehicle for the International Space Station as a stopgap if commercial crew vehicles suffer additional delays.</I></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">President Donald Trump signed S.422, the NASA Transition Authorization Act, on Tuesday (March 21):<P><center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9HzadC1imjQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Joining him at the ceremony were NASA astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Chris Cassidy, chief of the astronaut office, who presented the President a NASA flight jacket (photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls):

Robert Pearlman

The President devoted his weekly address to the signing of the NASA Transition Authorization Act:

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