Congress to dump Obama NASA plan

Flight Global ^ | 2-25-10 | Rob Coppinger

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White House plans to axe NASA's return-to-the-Moon Constellation programme and ground the Space Shuttle have sparked unified opposition from Congress, which looks determined to preserve a full spectrum of US manned spaceflight activities.

A draft Congressional bill leaked to Flight International sets out the politicians' alternate plan. It involves possibly extending Shuttle life to 2015, running competitive commercial crew and cargo programmes and continuing development of Constellation's vehicles including a heavylift rocket designed to get astronauts to the Moon in the 2020s and then Mars.

senator Bill Nelson of Florida says of the opposition to the Obama plan: "I have never seen [Congress] as unified as we are now."

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Whenever Nelson's name comes up it always reminds me of ...

[RipSawyer]

That is too much, some people still haven’t caught on that this genius couldn’t pass the final exam for a public high school from 1955, sometimes I don’t think he could pass the ENTRY exam. Next he’ll be axing a corpseman to do something. What in blazes has happened at Harvard if clowns like this are getting a law degree.

[DBeers]

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