"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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JF Mezei wrote:

On 2016-01-28 14:22, Fred J. McCall wrote:
bob haller wrote:

congress passeda law prohibiting inflatables on ISS.....
Uh, no. Cite?


As I recall, when ISS budgets were ballooning, Congress started to
tighten the noose around NASA's neck to stop overspending.

It so happened that the Bigelow concept came to the table at the wrong
time and even if it was a great idea, Congress specifically prohibited
NASA from spending any money on it (and I believe at same time as the
"do not spend research money on manned mission to mars but not sure).

It is not clear to me if those decisions were permanent or just for a
couple of budget cycles.


Uh, budgets don't work like that. Budgets fund things. Things that
aren't funded aren't "prohibited". They're just not funded.

Actually sometimes Congress will write in such prohibitions because they're
afraid the executive branch will otherwise find a way to move money around.

Section 128 of the 1999 NASA authorization act is pretty much written as a
prohibition in my opinion.



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