WASHINGTON - The full House Appropriations Committee agreed to a $1 billion cut to the civil space agency late Friday, restoring nearly $400 million in funds recommended for reduction by a subcommittee earlier this week. But the issue now moves to the floor of the House of Representatives next week, where agency supporters will try and restore all of the money now at risk.

The cut as approved Friday would still leave the space agency about 8 percent short of the Clinton administration's recommended numbers, with space science programs bearing most of the reductions, as was the case in the subcommittee action's Monday. But the issue remains fluid. Rep. James E. Rogan, R-CA., the assistant Majority Whip, wrote NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin Thursday he expected to have all of the funds restored by the full House. "I have heard from the Majority Leadership that there were plans to find the dollars in less worthy accounts," Rogan told Goldin.