Obama Orders a Review of NASA's Human Space Flight Program

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By Eliza Strickland
May 8, 2009 5:48 PMNov 5, 2019 9:00 PM
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While NASA's central mission is the same as it always was--to send astronauts up, up, and away!--the details of how it will send bold explorers into the space frontier are suddenly, well, up in the air. After months of signaling displeasure with NASA's operations, the Obama administration has ordered a 90-day review of the human space flight program.

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