Senate appropriators: we think NASA should fund two HLS landers, not one, so we’ll increase the program’s budget by… 8%. 
Curious item in Earth science: Senate appropriators want NASA to “support the development and demonstration of a prototype on-orbit robotically assembled Earth Science Platform.” No funding specified for it, though.
As others have noted, the report does not explicitly fund the SOFIA airborne observatory. NASA sought to terminate the program in its budget request but the House restored funding.
Good news for NASA LEO commercialization efforts: the Senate bill would fully fund that program at $101.1M in FY22.
There’s also a list of earmarks, er, “special projects.”
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