Agency Already Planning What To Do With Extra $2 Billion
President-elect Barack Obama put a scare into residents of
Florida's Space Coast early in his presidential campaign, when he
talked of a five-year delay in NASA's Constellation project to
allow increased federal funding for education. By the end of the
campaign, he'd done a 180-degree turn, and promised an extra $2
billion to shorten the gap between the retirement of the US shuttle
fleet and mission-readiness for the Ares I rocket and Orion crew
capsule.