How NASA Funding Found Bipartisan Support In Congress

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Artemis 1 moon mission has placed the conversation around funding for NASA and the Space Launch System in the congressional spotlight. Lawmakers' decision to provide more federal funding to NASA has been debated, as recent entrepreneurial efforts like SpaceX and Blue Origin show success on space exploration can be found in the private sector. Fox News Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram joined Fox News Radio's Jared Halpern to discuss how lawmakers now view NASA funding as important to bolstering national security, the debate over private sector space travel and what we can expect in the long term for Congress' support for a government-funded space program. Due to time limitations, we could not include all of the interview in our original segment. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our entire interview with Chad Pergram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	This is the Fox News rundown extra.
0:18.0	I'm Jared Halper.
0:22.0	America is moonbound again. The Artemis program manned and
0:28.0	unmanned launches is NASA's mission to put humans on the moon for the first time since the 1970s.
0:34.8	The lunar trips don't come cheap and could wind up costing tens of billions of dollars.
0:40.5	So far congressional leaders overseeing the space program appear willing to pay the price,
0:46.0	seeing scientific breakthroughs and national security implications.
0:50.0	My colleague Fox News Congressional Correspondent Cheat Purgroom has been following the debate and join me to talk about bipartisanship breaking out for spaceflight.
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1:04.4	rundown podcast. Now here's Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Purgram on
1:09.6	the Fox News rundown extra. All right, so Chad, let's start with, um, when's the last time, Chad, you saw Republicans
1:20.9	and Democrats sort of tripping over one another to try and fund an agency like
1:24.5	NASA?
1:26.5	It's not very often.
1:27.8	And as Don Beyer, Don Beyer is the Democratic representative from Northern Virginia and he chairs the space
1:34.7	subcommittee, an aerospace subcommittee in the in the House of Representatives and he
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