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By Mark K. Matthews and Robert Block Sentinel Staff Writers
5:54 p.m. EDT, August 14, 2009
Orlando Sentinel
President must decide to either find more money for manned space or support an emasculated program that critics will dismiss as irrelevant
WASHINGTON - When President Barack Obama named a panel to review NASA's manned-space program, his aides said privately they were hoping the group would recommend scrapping NASA's troubled Ares I rocket program and finding another, cheaper way to get humans back to the moon.
But the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee came to a troubling conclusion this week: NASA's current budget offers no hope of sending humans past the international space station for 20 years or more.
And that confronts the administration with an enormous dilemma: how, in an era of trillion-dollar deficits, to find money to reinvigorate human space exploration and avoid pulling the plug on a program that just celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first lunar landing.
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I am afraid that by the time it is decided that we should catch up with others going to the Moon, it will be too late for me to see it happen.
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