President Barack Obama is set to pump an additional $6 billion over the next five years into NASA's budget, Fox News confirms.
The announcement is expected to come Thursday, before a visit by the president to Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Along with the budget increase, Obama is expected to announce a revival of the NASA crew capsule concept that he had canceled with the rest of the moon program earlier this year, in a move that will mean more jobs and less reliance on the Russians, officials said Tuesday.
The space capsule, called Orion, still won't go to the moon. It will go unmanned to the International Space Station to standby as an emergency vehicle to return astronauts home, officials said.
Administration officials also said NASA will speed up development of a massive rocket. It would have the power to blast crew and cargo far from Earth, although no destination has been chosen yet. The rocket would be ready to launch several years earlier than under the old moon plan. - FOX News Story
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