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Astronauts Face New Frontier: Unemployment
By Traci Watson - AOL News(Feb. 26) -- For 40 years, the American astronaut has been an icon of bravery and derring-do. But could these elite fliers be about to get their pink slips? Under a proposal by President Barack Obama, NASA's campaign to send astronauts to the moon would be canceled, and the spaceship NASA has been building to replace the aging space shuttle would be scrapped. That would leave astronauts with nothing to fly, and only the International Space Station, a giant orbiting laboratory, to fly to. The White House wants crews to get to and from the station on spaceships that would be built and operated ...
Private Firms Look to Cash In on NASA Cuts
By Larisa Mendez Downes - AOL News(Feb. 1) – With NASA's Constellation program cut from the budget President Obama proposed Monday, private companies have the chance to play a bigger role in the next space race. While the budget request for fiscal year 2011 eliminates the Constellation program – which would have replaced the space shuttle with new rockets to return humans to the moon and ultimately land them on Mars – it provides funds for NASA to work with private industry to provide transportation to the International Space Station (ISS) and take on other exploratory and scientific projects. NASA ...
Obama to Propose Stimulus for Outsourcing NASA
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 31) -- Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new budget spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. Uncle Sam would buy its astronauts a ride into space just like hopping in a taxi. The idea is that getting astronauts into orbit, which NASA has been doing for 49 years, is getting to be so old hat that someone other than the government can do it. It's no longer really the Right Stuff. Going private would free the space agency to do other ...
NASA Warned Outsourcing Could Compromise Safety
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAn aerospace panel is warning NASA that relying on private companies to send astronauts into space would raise serious safety issues. The federal watchdog Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said that outsourcing would be "unwise and probably not cost-effective" because private space companies are not yet technically advanced enough to safely put astronauts into orbit, The Wall Street Journal reported. The White House has been exploring ways to rely on contractors to save money and speed up rocket development at the space agency. Earlier this month, a panel headed by former Lockheed Martin ...
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