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House Budgets $20B For Extra Shuttle Flight

$1 Billion Also Earmarked To Speed Up Moon, Mars Missions

POSTED: 8:06 am EDT June 20, 2008
UPDATED: 8:10 am EDT June 20, 2008

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to spend $20 billion to pay for an extra shuttle flight to take a magnetic spectrometer to space.

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It's an international project that would allow experts to learn more about the universe.

However, the large increase in money has NASA worried. NASA leaders believe it's a bad idea.

“If it is dictated to us, legislatively that the shuttle must continue to fly, then we will never have a replacement for it,” said NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin.

The bill also includes $1 billion to speed up the program to build rockets to send astronauts to the moon and Mars.


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