Fox News - Fair & Balanced

Project Constellation

    RelatedTopics

    1. NASA's Constellation Moon Program
    2. Constellations
    3. Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship
    4. Wasteful NASA Constellation Spending
    5. Space Launch System
    6. Unmanned Space Exploration
    Get updates on Project Constellation
    Obama to End NASA Constellation Program

    On the eve of the fullest moon of the year , NASA scientists were told they won't be able to visit any longer. In his new budget, President Obama plans to eliminate the space program's manned moon missions.When the president releases his budget on Monday, a White House official confirmed on Thursday, there will be a big hole where funding for NASA's Constellation program used to be. Constellation is the umbrella program that includes the Ares rocket -- the replacement for the aging space shuttles.NASA will receive an additional $5.9 billion over five years, some of which will be used to extend the life of the International Space Station to 2020. The official said it also will be used to entice companies to build private spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the space station after the space shuttle retires.SLIDESHOW: The Ares RocketThe story was first reported in the Orlando Sentinel , which detailed that the forthcoming budget will include no funding for lunar landers, no moon bases, and ...

    Read More ›

    1. Obama to Revive Orion Spacecraft

      COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. --  A top NASA official said President Obama will announce plans to continue development of a stripped-down version of the Orion Crew Explora...

    2. NASA's Orion Moon Craft Unveiled at New Spaceflight Facility

      Is this the future of manned missions into deep space? Lockheed Martin on Tuesday unveiled the first Orion spacecraft, a part of what NASA had planned as the sprawli...

    3. Orion vs. Apollo: NASA's 21st Century Moonshot

      When astronauts return to the moon by 2020, they will do so following a familiar path and flying in a cone-shaped capsule that echoes the "good old days" of Project ...

    4. Star Wars: Neil Armstrong, Obama Spar Over NASA's Future

      The first man to walk on the moon has blasted off at the Obama administration's stripped-down space plans, describing the president's proposals as "devastating." But...

    5. White House Rejects Armstrong Criticism of 'Devastating' Moon Mission Cuts

      White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defended President Obama on Wednesday against charges from Neil Armstrong and other famed astronauts that the president is d...

    6. Canceled Space Shuttle Replacement Makes Commercial Comeback

      NASA's scrapped Ares I rocket may see new life as part of a new private launch vehicle to provide commercial flights to space for satellites, cargo – and maybe even ...

    7. Ares 1-X Rocket Launch Preview

      CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's brand-new Ares 1-X rocket, the vehicle planned to launch astronauts spaceward after the space shuttles are retired, is poised to make i...

    8. Astronauts Spar Over NASA's Future

      They've lived with each other for extended periods of time in very close quarters, but that doesn't mean America's astronauts see eye-to-eye.As President Obama prepa...

    9. President Obama Signs NASA Space Exploration Act Into Law

      President Obama signed a major NASA act today (Oct. 11) that turns his vision for U.S. space exploration of asteroids and Mars into law.The signing makes official a ...

    10. New Space Freighter on Track for 2011 Launch

      The Virginia-based company is building the unmanned Cygnus space freighter  and a new rocket, the Taurus 2, to launch it. The first scheduled demonstration and opera...

    11. NASA, Europeans uniting to send spaceship to moon

      NASA is teaming up with the European Space Agency to get astronauts beyond Earth's orbit.Europe will provide the propulsion and power compartment for NASA's Orion cr...

    12. NASA's Huge New SLS Rocket Could Power Missions Far Beyond Mars

      NASA is contemplating space journeys far beyond a near-Earth asteroid, the moon or Mars for its new heavy-lift rocket in development. The Space Launch System (SLS), ...

    1. White House to Outsource Space Flight

      NASA's Constellation program should replace our aging fleet of space shuttles, which make their last flight in September. But reports indicate Obama may eliminate th...

    2. Work Continues on New NASA Spaceships, Despite Uncertainties

      NASA is pushing ahead with work on its new Orion space capsule and Ares rockets despite their ambiguous status as lawmakers discuss the agency's 2011 budget request....

    3. NASA Tests Rocket Engine Formerly Known as Ares

      NASA test-fired a new first-stage rocket motor in the Utah desert Tuesday for a rocket that is facing a shaky future.The space agency and contractor Alliant Techsyst...

    4. NASA Proposes Flight Test of Orion Spacecraft for Early 2014

      NASA is hoping the first unmanned flight test of the Orion spacecraft can take place in early 2014, as the space agency looks to take astronauts farther into space t...

    5. NASA: Ares Test Won't Endanger Space Shuttle

      NASA is confident that its first test flight of the new Ares I-X rocket will go well next week. But if it ends in an explosive failure, the agency affirmed that the ...

    6. NASA: Ares Test Won't Endanger Space Shuttle

      NASA is confident that its first test flight of the new Ares I-X rocket will go well next week. But if it ends in an explosive failure, the agency affirmed that the ...

    7. Obama to End NASA Constellation Program

      On the eve of the fullest moon of the year , NASA scientists were told they won't be able to visit any longer. In his new budget, President Obama plans to eliminate ...

    ‹ Prev12345…Next ›