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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.
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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