By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon officials are studying how President Barack Obama's proposal to cancel NASA's Constellation spaceflight program would impact the military's solid-rocket-motor efforts. The White House's fiscal year 2011 NASA budget request calls for eliminating Constellation, a space-shuttle-replacement effort intended to return astronauts to the moon that has included the developmental Ares I launch vehicle and Orion capsule and future Ares V heavy-lift rocket. The administration instead wants to help commercial companies develop human-spaceflight vehicles and to pursue new…
Pentagon Studying Impact of NASA Constellation Cancellation
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