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Article: United States: NASA Needs Extra $3 Billion a Year to Explore Space, Panel Says.
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- September 9, 2009
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Byline: datta03
NASA needs an extra $3 billion a year to send astronauts back to the moon or to deep-space flybys of Mars or asteroids and avoid an unsustainable trajectory of setting goals without adequate funding, a panel told President Barack Obama.
The space program is perpetuating the perilous practice of pursuing goals that do not match allocated resources, the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee said in a summary of its report. The panel is led by Norman Augustine, former chief executive of aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
With the space shuttle program winding down, the U.S. is seeking a new mission for astronauts that may ...