AEROSPACE

House Panel Restores Some NASA Funding: The Appropriations Committee has restored funding for the Cassini probe to Saturn, a project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena that accounts for more than 1,000 jobs. The committee also rescinded an appropriations subcommittee report that recommended closing three National Aeronautics and Space Administration centers in Virginia, Tennessee and Maryland and transferring some of the work to JPL and Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The committee also restored $132.2 million to the NASA budget, putting total funding at $13.67 billion. That is still $589 million below the Clinton Administration’s request.