NASA funding plan takes a broader view
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 20:35
in Astronomy & Space
Under Obama's budget proposal, the agency would cancel plans to return to the moon, and instead focus on building rockets that could someday go farther. President Obama outlined a dramatic new mission for NASA on Monday, getting the agency out of the rocket-launching business in favor of an aggressive expansion of research and development that that would steer the agency away from the...