Reports: Bush space policy announcement expected next week
Updated: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 9:49 PM ET (0249 GMT)
Originally Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 7:52 PM ET (0052 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.
Originally Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004, 7:52 PM ET (0052 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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