Saturday, October 3, 2009

9:31 PM
If the White House decides to return astronauts to the moon, NASA may have to look to Moscow, Paris, Tokyo or possibly even Beijing for help.

The reason: money. Without a massive increase in its budget, the agency won’t be able to send humans past the International Space Station anytime soon, according to a presidential panel that recently reviewed NASA’s manned space program.

Teaming up with foreign space agencies — as suggested by that 10-member panel — would significantly shift the direction of NASA, from overseer of a purely American push for the stars to part of a global science project funded by dollars, euros, rubles and yen.

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