Article: Aerospace & Defense News - Space.

New York (AirGuideBusiness - Space News) Oct 4, 2009

NASA

Funding for NASA's commercial crew and cargo work has been slashed from USD 150 million to USD 90 million with just USD 1 million for a human rating study contract that was announced and withdrawn in September. The original USD 150 million was going to be spent with USD 80 million for a crew transport programme and USD 70 million for supporting work. That has been torn up and the USD 90 million is split four ways. There is USD 50 million for the Commercial Crew Development programme, USD 24 million for launch site and test infrastructure, USD 15 million for docking system development, and the USD ...

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