A U.S. Senate committee has rejected (with a bipartisan vote), the new President Obama's space program and in practice would see the cancellation of the Constellation program (at least for 2010). Now there were those who rejoiced at this news, forgetting that the Constellation program was underfunded by as many as 3 billion dollars a year! Where these senators have been in the past five years of President Bush that the plan had Constellation launched with great fanfare ...? I remember that the only tangible results of six (6!) Years of research and development of the Constellation program (which would lead to build a moon base from ... 2018) was the launch last year, Ares IX, in effect, a strong booster of the shuttle with an inert fifth segment, a dummy upper stage, a dummy capsule Orion LAS and a test dummy and Pad- Abort held a few days ago. United States President Obama is at this moment, under fire all the lobbyists who have been attacked with the health law and with the next law on the operation of stock market activity. Astronautics and ended up in the middle of this battle and, unfortunately, this will impact the future of space exploration because, whether we like it or not, we Europeans are to tow the U.S., as well as other international partners ...
I see, as well as other fans involved in space travel, a very uncertain future and dark for the future of manned space ... I hope I'm wrong ...
forgot! Who says that Constellation would have prevented NASA to rely on the Russians to carry its astronauts in LEO (low earth orbit), however, remember that the Orion capsule would have flown home in the best case, not before 2015 ... and from 2010 to 2015 NASA astronauts as we arrived at the ISS? On foot?
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