NASA Wants More For Commercial Crew, Technology

By Frank Morring, Jr. morring@aviationweek.com
WASHINGTON

The Obama administration’s $18.7 billion NASA budget request for fiscal 2012 continues the new policies started in last year’s request, with a stronger push into commercial space travel to low Earth orbit (LEO) and modifications to accommodate the three-year NASA authorization enacted in December.

In a bid to follow President Barack Obama’s overall ...

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