RSSRefocused NASA gets bipartisan criticism
From: The Washington Times | February 26, 2010
President Obama's decision to kill the U.S. government's manned space flight program and quash a planned mission to the moon ran into bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Republicans and Democrats alike on the House Science and Technology Committee - many with major space-program facilities in their districts - expressed dismay with Mr. Obama's decision, included in his proposed fiscal 2011 budget for NASA released earlier this month. Rep. David Wu, Oregon Democrat, called the decision "premature" and asked whether Mr. Obama's cuts "doom us to a future where there are no Americans in space or at least that ...
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