 Jim Young / Reuters |
President Barack Obama and SpaceX founder Elon Musk tour a launch pad where SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is being readied for testing. NASA is paying SpaceX to develop the rocket as a means of transport to the International Space Station. |
The backers and the opponents of the White House’s new policy on America’s future space effort largely agree on where they’d like to see NASA going in the 2030s: beyond the moon, to asteroids and Mars. The battle is really over what NASA will be doing (or not doing) in 2012 … which, by the way, is an election year.
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