| …President Obama proposed canceling Constellation. “It’s on an unsustainable path.” Let’s have a “transformative agenda for NASA.” You probably know the details. A $6 billion increase over 5 years. Heavier climate change studies. Space Station extended to 2020. Launch complex modernization. Low Earth orbit transport and operations capability to be commercialized. “Breakthrough propulsion and other technologies” to be studied and selected by 2015. 15-20 years after that we would “leap into the future” and “go farther, faster…” |