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Phased Out: Obama's NASA Budget Would Cancel Constellation Moon Program, Privatize Manned Launches
The president wants to scrap NASA's space shuttle successor, now in development, and relax the agency's focus on returning to the moon
Feb 1, 2010 By John Matson
Ares rocket canceled
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.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-budget-constellation-cancel/
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In November 2007, the Obama presidential campaign released a policy document delaying NASA's Constellation program by five years to fund education programs. There was concern that any delay would prolong the gap after the Space Shuttle's retirement, when the US would be dependent on the Russian government for access to the International Space Station. Other presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton, did not support the delay.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/22/AR2007112201359_2.html