Senate authorizers keep main elements of White House’s NASA plan
JUL 16, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024506
New York Times : President Obama’s overhaul of NASA’s manned space program included the cancelation of the Constellation return-to-the-moon program, a greater reliance on commercial launch vehicles, and a visit to an asteroid as NASA’s next big destination. Yesterday, as the New York Times‘s Kenneth Chang reports, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation kept the plan’s most controversial element, the Constellation cancelation, but authorized NASA to develop an alternative launch vehicle that, like Constellation’s Ares rocket, is capable of sending spacecraft to the moon and beyond.
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