NASA’s SLS development effort would get a boost in a proposed Senate spending bill that would give the space agency $17.9 billion next year, some $254 million more than it received in 2014.

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Dan Leone is the NASA reporter for SpaceNews, where he also covers other civilian-run U.S. government space programs and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He joined SpaceNews in 2011.Dan earned a bachelor's degree in public communications...