By Kathryn A. Wolfe, CQ Staff
The House cleared a NASA reauthorization Saturday by voice vote, just one month shy of its 50th anniversary. .
The measure would reauthorize the space agency for one year at an authorized funding level of $20.2 billion. The bill embraces the agency's plan to send astronauts back to the moon in preparation for future missions to Mars and would designate $1 billion for accelerate development of a spacecraft to replace the current shuttle fleet.