Sentences with phrase «proposed human spaceflight»

While various new initiatives and goals are being offered as justifications for the Administration's proposed human spaceflight program, the budgetary constraints NASA is facing make it critically important for Congress to determine whether the proposed plan is executable, well defined, and worth doing.

Discussing his strong concerns with the President's proposal, Mr. Thomas Young, former CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., said «A fundamental flaw in the proposed human spaceflight program is a commercial crew initiative which abandons the proven methodology I have described.

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In a speech from Florida's Space Coast, the president argued the case for his proposed NASA budget and outlined his vision for human spaceflight

«President Obama has once again marginalized America's preeminence in human spaceflight, as well as the American taxpayer, for the benefit of his climate research programs,» said Representative Pete Olson of Texas when Obama released his proposed NASA budget earlier this year.

Money will be a big issue: the proposed price tag would re-direct about 1 per cent of NASA's current annual budget to Inspiration Mars, but funding is already so tight that the Congressional Budget Office has proposed cutting human spaceflight altogether.