This week, Jack and Newton talk about the latest House appropriations bill for NASA and the announcement about the new National Space Council. They then briefly touch on the June 2 failure of the Long March 5, DARPA hitching a ride with ISRO, and Dylan Taylor's thrust for diversity in space tourism.

Links:

Latest from Washington

Congress says ‘eff you’ to Trump NASA budget

Congress says 'eff you' to Trump even more

House hearing

Senate hearing

Space News Highlight of the Week

We now have a National Space Council!

International News

China experiences an anomaly on the launchpad

Latest in Tech

DARPA trying to launch smallsat experiment on an Indian rocket

Space for Humanity seeks 10,000 citizen astronauts

Coming Soon to Space

Future Space Leaders 2017

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