Proposed NASA budget plots entrepreneur-friendly course
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 14:28
in Astronomy & Space
President Obama's plan to abandon a return mission to the moon and rely more on private start-ups would be a blow to big contractors like Northrop and Boeing while encouraging smaller rivals. Big defense firms are reeling from President Obama's call to reshape NASA and scrap plans for sending astronauts back to the moon, an ambitious endeavor that would have meant billions of...