{"id":268440,"date":"2010-02-03T01:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T06:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/areview.co.cc\/mfarhanonline\/featured\/nasa-picks-5-firms-for-commercial-spaceflight-plan\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T01:04:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T06:04:40","slug":"nasa-picks-5-firms-for-commercial-spaceflight-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268440","title":{"rendered":"NASA picks 5 firms for commercial spaceflight plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id = 'vidsnapr' name = '*'><\/div>\n<p>areview.co.cc: The US space agency awarded $50 million in grants to five private firms in a first step to implement President Barack Obama&#8217;s vision of turning over space transportation to the commercial sector. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden also deflected criticism by some US lawmakers that Obama&#8217;s proposal would topple the United States from its preeminent role in space exploration. We are not abandoning human space flight by any stretch of the imagination, Bolden said at a news conference. We are probably on a new course, but human space flight is in our DNA. Obama&#8217;s budget plan, unveiled on Monday, scuttles the Constellation programme, begun under former President George W Bush to return humans to the moon and spends $6 billion over five years to develop commercial space transportation. Obama&#8217;s NASA proposal hands over more space operations to the commercial sector, saying it will create thousands of new jobs and hold costs down. Some members of Congress promised a fight to save the symbolic but costly lunar programme. Senator Richard Shelby, the senior Republican on the appropriations subcommittee handling NASA funding, called the Obama plan a death march for human space flight.<\/p>\n<map name='google_ad_map_30349_19d5c0c9b9a41814'>\n<area shape='rect' href='http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/imgclick\/30349?pos=0' coords='1,2,367,28' \/>\n<area shape='rect' href='http:\/\/services.google.com\/feedback\/abg' coords='384,10,453,23'\/><\/map>\n<p><img usemap='http:\/\/areview.co.cc\/mfarhanonline\/news\/nasa-picks-5-firms-for-commercial-spaceflight-plan\/#google_ad_map_30349_19d5c0c9b9a41814' border='0' src='http:\/\/imageads.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/ads?format=468x30_aff_img&amp;client=&amp;channel=&amp;output=png&amp;cuid=30349&amp;url=%20http%3A%2F%2Fareview.co.cc%2Fmfarhanonline%2Fnews%2Fnasa-picks-5-firms-for-commercial-spaceflight-plan%2F' \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/areview.co.cc\/?ak_action=api_record_view&#038;id=30349&#038;type=feed\" alt=\"\" \/><fb:share-button href=\"http:\/\/areview.co.cc\/mfarhanonline\/news\/nasa-picks-5-firms-for-commercial-spaceflight-plan\/\" type=\"button_count\"><\/fb:share-button><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fareview.co.cc%2Fmfarhanonline%2Fnews%2Fnasa-picks-5-firms-for-commercial-spaceflight-plan%2F&amp;linkname=NASA%20picks%205%20firms%20for%20commercial%20spaceflight%20plan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/areview.co.cc\/wp-content\/plugins\/bookmark\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>areview.co.cc: The US space agency awarded $50 million in grants to five private firms in a first step to implement President Barack Obama&#8217;s vision of turning over space transportation to the commercial sector. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden also deflected criticism by some US lawmakers that Obama&#8217;s proposal would topple the United States from its preeminent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}