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Obama’s New Space Exploration Plan Includes Major Role for Private Firms
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President Obama outlined his new space exploration policy on Thursday with a pledge to add $6 billion to NASA’s annual budget over the next five years and seek a landing on Mars by the mid-2030s. His program would also bolster support for private space companies that would handle design and construction of the spacecraft and boosters. We speak to Victoria Samson of the Secure World Foundation.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/16/nasa