Han, President Obama has deleted the Constellation project (astronauts return to the moon) from his budget proposal. Instead, he proposes that the private sector develop vehicles to ferry persons to the International Space Station; but not to the moon or to Mars anytime in the near future.
However, some members of congress say they will promote a more vigorous manned space program. Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:52:03 +0100 >From: "Han Maenen" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:46620] Cancellation of spaceshuttle successor? >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > I have read in two Dutch newspapers that the > NASA-successor of the space shuttle has been > cancelled. Any successor is to be build by the > Californian company Space-X. Is that true? It was > the project that was to revert to non-metric units > according to NASA, as metric was deemed to be too > expensive.
