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NASA Authorizers Skeptical About Obama’s Shift To Commercial Spacecraft

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Monday, March 1st, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers vexed by President Barack Obama's attempt to cancel the Constellation moon-exploration program grilled NASA's leader Feb. 25 about its plan to help commercial companies build human-spaceflight vehicles. House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) said he fears the space agency's plan to spend taxpayer money on generating a commercial crew-transporting industry could end up making those firms "too important to fail" and "wards of the state." NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, during the contentious hearing…

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