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Space Shuttle Program Completes New Plan For Next Launch
"NASA's Space Shuttle Program has established a plan that could support shuttle Discovery's launch to the International Space Station, tentatively targeted for March 12. An exact target launch date will be determined as work progresses with the shuttle's three gaseous hydrogen flow control valves. The Space Shuttle Program will hold a meeting March 4 to review new data and assess ongoing work.
Managers then will determine whether to move forward with a flight readiness review March 6."
At last some sign of oxygen for the space program. I'd be a lot more reassured if he would pick an administrator with a taste for exploration. We'll know more when we see the full budget and can follow the money. If development money for a heavy lift vehicle or a lunar lander is cut, delayed or otherwise diverted we'll know the true nature of the Administrations commitment to space exploration.
Since we have all decided that we are Keynesian's now and are about to pop for 2-3 trillion dollars in government spending, surely we can afford a few billion dollars to push back the frontiers of human exploration, especially if it will put a lot of people to work expanding the nation's technical competence in a vital technology for the new century.