Obama Explains Future Space Plans

By Irene Klotz
Kennedy Space Center

President Barack Obama has taken ownership of the turnabout space-exploration policy embodied in his Fiscal 2011 NASA budget request, opening up a potentially game-changing debate on the U.S. role in space that is likely to encompass much more than the civilian space agency before it is over.

Aerospace industry executives already are struggling to find their way across the shifting space policy grounds, and the Air Force is stepping up its search ...

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