It's Official! White House to Cancel Constellation Program
Department:
The Future in Space
Teaser:
"The Obama administration is canceling NASA's current space shuttle replacement- and lunar exploration-plan and is prepared to fight any congressional effort to save it, officials said."
Source:
SPACE.com Download time: Feb 1 2010 8:08 AM ET
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is canceling NASA's current space shuttle replacement- and lunar exploration-plan and is prepared to fight any congressional effort to save it, the nation's top budget official said Jan. 31.
During a teleconference with reporters one day before the White House was to send its 2011 budget request to Congress, White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag and White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer confirmed Obama's plan to kill NASA's Constellation program, a five-year-old effort to replace the aging space shuttle fleet with new rockets and spacecraft optimized to return astronauts to the Moon.…
Also see the stories in the BBC News and the Guardian with commentary in the Space Review here and here. Also see this comment on a new space race.
