White House Confirms Course Change for NASA

kajidono · Feb 1, 2010

The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is canceling NASA's current space shuttle replacement-and lunar exploration-plan and is prepared to fight any congressional effort to save it.

The president's budget, officially sent to Congress Monday morning, confirms what officials had stated during a teleconference with reporters one day before: White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag and White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer stated Obama's plan to kill NASA's Constellation program, a five-year-old effort to replace the aging space shuttle fleet with new rockets and spacecraft optimized to return astronauts to the Moon.
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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/01/white-house-confirms-course-change-nasa/

Spacer · Feb 1, 2010

So long as they stay the heck out of the way of private efforts, I'm all for NASA going back to its original purpose: pure research.

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