{"id":269204,"date":"2010-02-03T04:28:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=13399"},"modified":"2010-02-03T04:28:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:28:31","slug":"white-house-decides-to-outsource-nasa-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269204","title":{"rendered":"White House Decides To Outsource NASA Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4920\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"space-man-on-moon\" src=\"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/space-man-on-moon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"space-man-on-moon\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>By Andy Pasztor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">(Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2010) The White House has decided to begin funding private companies to carry NASA astronauts into space, but the proposal faces major political and budget hurdles, according to people familiar with the matter. \u00a0The controversial proposal, expected to be included in the Obama administration&#8217;s next budget, would open a new chapter in the U.S. space program. The goal\u00a0is to set up a multiyear, multi-billion-dollar initiative allowing private firms, including some start-ups, to compete to build and operate spacecraft capable of ferrying U.S. astronauts into orbit\u2014and eventually deeper into the solar system.\u00a0 Congress is likely to challenge the concept&#8217;s safety and may balk at shifting dollars from existing National Aeronautics and Space Administration programs already hurting for funding to the new initiative.<span id=\"more-13399\"><\/span> The White House&#8217;s ultimate commitment to the initiative is murky, according to these people, because the budget isn&#8217;t expected to outline a clear, long-term funding plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">The White House&#8217;s NASA budget also envisions stepped-up support for climate-monitoring and environmental projects, along with enhanced international cooperation across both manned and unmanned programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Press officials for NASA and the White House have declined to comment. Industry and government officials have talked about the direction of the next NASA budget, but declined to be identified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">The idea of outsourcing a portion of\u00a0NASA&#8217;s manned space program to the private sector gained momentum after recommendations from a presidential panel appointed last year. The panel, chaired by former Lockheed Martin Corp. Chairman Norman Augustine, argued that allowing companies to build and launch their own rockets and spacecraft to carry American astronauts into orbit would save money and also free up NASA to focus on more ambitious, longer-term goals.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052748704375604575023530543103488-lMyQjAxMTAwMDIwNDEyNDQyWj.html\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Pasztor (Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2010) The White House has decided to begin funding private companies to carry NASA astronauts into space, but the proposal faces major political and budget hurdles, according to people familiar with the matter. \u00a0The controversial proposal, expected to be included in the Obama administration&#8217;s next budget, would [&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-269204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269204","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=269204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}