If NASA Funding Isn't Increased, Moon Mission Slips Three Years To 2023; First Orion Manned Mission Slips A Year To 2016; Chinese Likely Would Beat U.S. Effort To Return To Moon Further Savaging Science, Aeronautics Programs To Kill 35 Of 79 Planned Missions Would Cover Constellation Program Without Raising NASA Budget Nickel-dime-ing the American space program could mean that Chinese taikonauts would beat the United States by years in going to the moon, and also would mean adding a year…
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