NASA's return to the Moon dropped by Obama
Posted on Sunday, January 31 @ 11:24:25 GMT by Administrator |
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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama’s plan to scrap NASA’s Moon-bound Constellation program and turn to private companies for launching astronauts into space provoked a strong bipartisan rebuke from the Alabama, Florida and Texas congressional delegations several days before the president was slated to deliver his annual budget request to Congress.
House and Senate lawmakers from the three states home to NASA’s lead human spaceflight centers unleashed a barrage of criticism in advance of the Feb. 1 release of Obama’s 2011 budget request, which an administration official said would increase NASA spending by $6 billion over the next five years, keep the international space station in service through at least 2020, cancel the agency’s 5-year-old Constellation program to build new rockets and spacecraft optimized for the Moon and fund a $6 billion effort to foster development of commercial systems for ferrying astronauts to the international space station. To see the Space News article, follow this
Note: Source: Space News story by Amy Klamper.
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