Senate Panel Cuts Commercial Spaceship Funding for NASA (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON
— A Senate panel approved a
$19 billion NASA budget Wednesday that would cut in half the U.S. space
agency's
2011 request for a new commercial crew initiative while pumping an
unsought $3
billion into continued development of the Orion Crew Exploration
Vehicle and a
heavy-lift rocket needed to launch it into deep space.