President Obama caused some friction between NASA supporters and the commercial space community by cancelling the space exploration part of the VSE and doubling down on the commercial space initiative.The panel at a Space Frontier Foundation conf is talking about how to increase NASA budget. Imagine that in late 90s.” The Space Frontier Foundation has been a leading voice for commercializing space, sometimes at the expense of NASA programs. The shift to the idea that commercial space and NASA may benefit one another started when President George W. Bush first proposed the Vision for Space Exploration. Part of the VSE involved ending the space shuttle program and outsourcing the transportation of supplies and astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Thus NASA would be freed to conduct space exploration beyond low Earth orbit.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 18:38:21 +0000
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