Florida feels heat of NASA cutback
Florida feels heat of NASA cutback
Florida feels heat of NASA cutback
President Barack Obama wants to make dramatic changes Potpourri in how NASA functions, jettisoning plans to return to the moon, letting private companies handle human transport into lower orbit and focusing the nation's space agency on new rocket technology.
But Obama's failure to extend the space shuttle program, which is expected to end by early 2011, and his decision to cancel the moon program launched by George W. Bush in 2004,DVD Ripper, means the imminent loss of at least 7,000 jobs #x in Florida and a sense of betrayal along the Space Coast.
``President Obama clearly didn't keep his word,'' said Brevard County Commissioner Robin Fisher, who has been involved in a letter-writing campaign in support of Kennedy Space Center workforce called www.savespace.us. ``Now we've got to hope we can get some congressional support to keep people working.''
Obama wants to boost NASA's budget to about $20 billion a year over Potpourri the next five years. The plans include extending support of the International Space Station to 2020.
But on the chopping block is the moon effort, which includes the Ares rocket program and the development of the Orion crew capsule. More than $9 billion has been spent so far on the programs and it will cost an additional $2.5 billion to shut it down.
Obama's budget lacks specifics about where astronauts will be flying next, when they will be going or in what kind of vehicle. But NASA officials insisted it did not mean an end to exploration. Instead, they promised that by shifting dollars from the Constellation program, which relied on 50-year-old technology to return to the moon, they would be able to develop ``game-changing technology that can take us further faster and more affordably into space.''
Obama's budget also includes about $2 billion in upgrades to the Kennedy Space Center overPotpourri the next five years. NASA officials said they expect more launches #xat the Florida site. Among the changes will be moving the gates at the center so unused areas can be used by private companies.
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