Obama on Thursday will speak at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida about his plans for drastically changing the direction of the nation’s human spaceflight program. Included in those plans is a decision — originally announced back in February — to end the Constellation moon program and shift NASA’s focus to developing new technologies for deeper space exploration instead. The new plan will increase NASA’s budget by $6 billion over the next five years. It calls for a decision in 2015 on the specific heavy-lift rocket chosen to take Americans deeper into space.
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Obama to Defend Space Vision Against Mounting Criticism
Posted by: Katherine Noyes April 14, 2010 11:55 AMObama on Thursday will speak at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida about his plans for drastically changing the direction of the nation’s human spaceflight program. Included in those plans is a decision — originally announced back in February — to end the Constellation moon program and shift NASA’s focus to developing new technologies for deeper space exploration instead. The new plan will increase NASA’s budget by $6 billion over the next five years. It calls for a decision in 2015 on the specific heavy-lift rocket chosen to take Americans deeper into space.