President Obama on Monday proposed a dramatically new path that would end NASA’s Constellation moon program and shift the agency’s focus to developing new technologies for deeper space exploration instead. “We were not on a path to get back to the moon’s surface” in a reasonable time frame, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden explained while presenting the proposed budget for fiscal year 2011. “As we focused so much of our effort and funding on just getting to the moon, we were neglecting investments in the key technologies that would be required to go beyond.”
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Obama Gazes Past the Moon to Mars
Posted by: Katherine Noyes February 3, 2010 11:58 AMPresident Obama on Monday proposed a dramatically new path that would end NASA’s Constellation moon program and shift the agency’s focus to developing new technologies for deeper space exploration instead. “We were not on a path to get back to the moon’s surface” in a reasonable time frame, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden explained while presenting the proposed budget for fiscal year 2011. “As we focused so much of our effort and funding on just getting to the moon, we were neglecting investments in the key technologies that would be required to go beyond.”