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Change in space for NASA: Renting the Right Stuff
• AP Getting to space is about to be
outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new
budget spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to
build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. Uncle Sam
would buy its astronauts a ride into space just like hopping in a taxi.
The idea is that getting astronauts into orbit, which NASA has been doing for 49 years, is getting to be so old hat that someone other than the government can do it.
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