{"id":87129,"date":"2010-04-15T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bolden-calls-obamas-nasa-direction-a-transformative-effort\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T01:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:52:37","slug":"bolden-calls-obamas-nasa-direction-a-transformative-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bolden-calls-obamas-nasa-direction-a-transformative-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolden Calls Obama\u2019s NASA Direction a \u201cTransformative Effort\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-14-10] <strong>NASA<\/strong> Administrator Charles Bolden told audience members at the 2010 Space Symposium that U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s new direction for NASA should be seen as a transformative effort rather than a massive budget cut.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBoth NASA and the president are absolutely committed to a vibrant future for human spaceflight \u2026 We will use innovative technologies developed in a step-wise approach,\u201d said Bolden.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In its 2010 fiscal year governmental budget, released Feb. 1, the White House terminated NASA\u2019s work on Orion, the follow-up vehicle to the Space Shuttle; ended development on two NASA rockets designed to fly manned missions to the moon; and set aside funding to hand over space transportation and future human exploration mission to private commercial companies.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bolden said that he did not \u201ctip the president\u2019s hand\u201d in creating the budget and that anxious space industry personnel should wait until Obama\u2019s scheduled speech during a space conference on Thursday, where he is scheduled to give more details on the NASA budget.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cNASA will now take small steps along a game-changing path. 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Thus, it has always been and thus it shall\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">NASA s Role in Question After Constellation Cut<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 18, 2010<br \/>\nby Jeffrey Hill    U.S. President Barack Obama  s decision to cut NASA s manned Constellation lunar mission program and  invest $6 billion in commercial launch companies to replace the  retiring Space Shuttle has drawn sharp divisions between NASA and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-14-10] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told audience members at the 2010 Space Symposium that U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s new direction for NASA should be seen as a transformative effort rather than a massive budget cut. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBoth NASA and the president are absolutely committed to a vibrant future for human spaceflight \u2026 We will use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}