Senate Panel Cuts Commercial Spaceship Funding for NASA
Friday, July 23, 2010 - 10:56
in Astronomy & Space
A Senate panel approved a $19 billion NASA budget Wednesday that would cut in half the U.S. space agency�s 2011 request for a new commercial crew initiative while pumping an unsought $3 billion into continued development of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle and a heavy-lift rocket needed to launch it into deep space.