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Today, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced that Central Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) will be the permanent home for Space Shuttle Atlantis, OV-104, after the Orbiter is officially retired from duty later this year. Since the inception of America’s human space flight program, nearly every manned mission to space has launched from Florida’s Space Coast, making Kennedy Space… Read more »

Today Congressman Bill Posey (R-Rockledge) testified before the House Budget Committee lamenting the lack of direction at NASA and asking the Budget Committee to make human space flight the highest priority within NASA’s overall budget. In August of 2008, the President promised Space Coast residents that he would close the gap between Shuttle and its replacement Constellation program,… Read more »

Today the President released his Fiscal Year 2012 budget blueprint which spends a record $3.8 trillion leaving another record $1.6 trillion budget deficit, the third straight trillion dollar budget deficit in a row. The President’s budget will lead to a $1.6 trillion tax increase on families and businesses, fails to address entitlement spending and paves the way for adding another $13… Read more »

As House leaders examine ways to cut spending and address the ever growing budget deficits that have plagued Washington for years, U.S. Representatives Bill Posey (R-FL), Sandy Adams (R-FL) and Rob Bishop (R-UT) were joined by several other of their colleagues in calling for a reprioritization of NASA so human space flight remains the primary focus of the nation’s space agency as budget… Read more »

Congressman Bill Posey (R-Rockledge) released the following statement honoring of the men and women working at the Kennedy Space Center who have maintained the America’s Space Shuttle fleet: “I offer my sincere thanks to men and women of the shuttle workforce for their commitment over the past three decades to keeping America first in space. While the astronauts are often the ones who… Read more »

The House passed a NASA Authorization bill with the support of Congressman Bill Posey (R-Rockledge) which, if not enacted, would have paved the way for the Administration to dismantle key NASA programs without Congressional consent. “Had the House had failed to pass a NASA bill this week, the Administration, whose NASA plan failed to keep the promise of closing the gap and keeping us… Read more »

In a hastily announced conference call with Congressional offices, NASA said that it had just “discovered” a $1 billion shortfall in the Constellation program forcing contractors to immediately start shutting down operations in order to comply with NASA’s revision of long-standing accounting practices. “This is one more attempt by this Administration to terminate a program that Congress… Read more »

Congressman Bill Posey (R-Rockledge) released the following statement in regards to the successful Falcon 9 launch: “It’s inspiring to see the years of hard work; planning and ingenuity come full circle with the successful test launch of Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket. I have worked for years to promote commercial space efforts in Florida, and this launch is an important step for America’s… Read more »

U.S. Representative Bill Posey released the following statement regarding the Labor Secretary’s announcement of a $15 million grant to help space workers as the Administration moves to end the Space Shuttle program:   “While I hope this announcement will help some displaced workers, a series of ill-advised decisions by this Administration make the workforce needs all the more dire. … Read more »

Congressman Bill Posey released the following statement in response to the Task Force on Space Industry Workforce and Economic Development memo released by the White House today:   “A better transition program for space workers and our nation’s continued leadership in space is to abandon the President’s proposal to cancel Constellation and for NASA to continue flying the Space Shuttle… Read more »