Space Policy Fight May Have No Winners

By Frank Morring, Jr.

There’s no joy in the U.S. space industry this summer, as the Obama administration and Congress skirmish over the proposal to kill NASA’s Constellation Program and follow the space shuttle with a fleet of commercial “space taxis” to take astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

Constellation contractors are losing a bitter game of legal hardball over congressional appropriations requirements ...

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