With regard to the NASA budget, there is good news and bad news for space enthusiasts and taxpayers in the Continuing Resolution (CR) being voted on today on the Hill.

The good news is that, after multiple failures in previous CRs, language inserted into the appropriations bill last year by Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) that was forcing NASA to continue to waste a million and a half dollars a day on the cancelled Constellation program was finally removed, freeing the agency to reallocate those funds to something productive, at least in theory.