Posted on 04/15/2010 10:14:54 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama tries to quell dispute over his cuts to manned space exploration with promise of 'leap into the future'
President Obama promised a leap into the future for Nasa yesterday in a speech designed to quell a growing dispute over his cuts to manned space exploration, and to persuade critics that America will eventually put astronauts on Mars.
Despite cancelling Constellation, the $108 billion (more than £69 bn) programme that aimed to get astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and the Red Planet by 2030, he outlined a series of stepping stone destinations where Nasa will first seek a foothold in deep space using humans and robots.
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