From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 06:52:07 PST
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Reports: Bush space policy announcement expected next week
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Updated: Thu, Jan 8 8:49 PM ET (0149 GMT)
Originally Posted: Thu, Jan 8 6:52 PM ET (2352 GMT)
President George W. Bush will make an announcement next week
about a new US space policy that could include resuming
human missions to the Moon, Reuters and UPI reported late
Thursday. The Reuters article cited Congressional sources,
who said that the president would make a "major
announcement", according to the report. That policy is
expected to include a "new lunar initiative" that could
eventually lead to human Mars missions. UPI reported that
Bush will ask Congress to increase NASA's budget by five
percent per year for the next five years to pay for this new
effort. The shuttle would also be retired as soon as the
assembly of the International Space Station is completed,
according to the UPI report, with NASA relying on Soyuz and
Ariane launches to send crews and cargo to the station.
Research into areas outside of the lunar exploration project
would be curtailed or terminated, UPI reported. Bush will
be in Mexico on Monday and Tuesday of next week, suggesting
that any announcement would wait until after he returned.
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Reuters article:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JZEDSYS0AZZAQCRBAEKSFEY?type=scienceNews&storyID=4097569
UPI article :
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040107-123930-1532r
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