Phased Out: Obama's NASA Budget Would Cancel Constellation Moon Program, Privatize Manned Launches
Monday, February 1, 2010 - 19:07
in Astronomy & Space
President Obama delivered his budget request for fiscal year 2011 to Congress on Monday, proposing sweeping changes to NASA's spaceflight program while increasing the agency's overall budget. As had been rumored for days , Obama's blueprint for NASA would cancel the Constellation program , the family of rockets and hardware now in development to replace the aging space shuttle, and would call instead on commercial vendors to fly astronauts to orbit. [More]