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On April 15, U.S. President Barack Obama...
the United States plans to develop a new heavy-lift vehicle for deep-space missions. Beyond that, goals include landing U.S. astronauts on an asteroid by 2025 and sending astronauts to orbit Mars and return safely to Earth by 2035.3) By the middle of this decade, NASA will switch over to a federal-private system for ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
4) The Space Shuttle will be retired in September-October 2010.
5) The ISS, which was slated to close in 2016, will operate for another five years beyond that.
George W. Bush is the only U.S. president who can rival JFK in his commitment to send astronauts to the moon. In 1961, Kennedy challenged America to become the first country to put a man to the moon. Twelve U.S. astronauts have reached the moon since then. President Bush announced that the U.S. would return to the moon no matter what under the Constellation Program.
In February 2010, Obama scrapped the $108
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