{"id":87512,"date":"2010-02-09T20:24:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/obama-cuts-nasas-moon-spacecraft-program\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T20:24:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:24:12","slug":"obama-cuts-nasas-moon-spacecraft-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/obama-cuts-nasas-moon-spacecraft-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Cuts NASA\u2019s Moon Spacecraft Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has terminated <strong>NASA<\/strong>\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 will hand  over space transportation and future human exploration mission to  private commercial companies, according to President Barack Obama\u2019s  fiscal year 2010 governmental budget, released Feb. 1. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NASA, which receives $18 billion for its yearly budget, will  redirect funds allocated for the Constellation program to research  projects that include robotics and other technologies needed to prepare  for an eventual human mission to Mars. According to NASA, the agency  already has spent $9 billion on Constellation and likely would owe  millions more to cancel existing contracts with prime contractors <strong>ATK  Launch Systems, Pratt &amp; Whitney Rocketdyne<\/strong> and <strong>Boeing<\/strong>.  <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> is the lead contractor on the Orion  capsule.  <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The decision to cut NASA\u2019s moon landing program initially was  co-sponsored by a presidential space advisory panel created in 2009,  which advised the president to cut $3 billion in boost funding that the  program was set to receive. The board also recommended NASA help  commercial firms develop space taxis to ferry crewmembers to and from  the space station, a service the United States currently pays Russia to  provide at a cost of $50 million a seat. NASA already has contracts with  <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> and <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> to  deliver cargo to the station.         <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a statement, <strong>Commercial Spaceflight Federation <\/strong>President  Bretton Alexander said that turning over space transportation to the  private sector would create more jobs leveraged by private investments.  \u201cCommercial crew will create thousands of high-tech jobs in the United  States, especially in Florida, while reducing the spaceflight gap and  preventing us from sending billions to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has 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 will hand over space transportation and future human exploration mission to private commercial companies, according to President Barack Obama\u2019s fiscal year 2010 governmental budget, [&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-87512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87512"}],"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=87512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}