[FPSPACE] NASA Moon Plans Drifting to the Right a Little

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BLOG: NASA Moon Plans Drifting to the Right a Little

http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=AB0C:4A48D

To quote:

But in plotting out the replanting of astronaut boots on the Moon, extensive 
use of pre-human lunar robotics doesn’t look to be in the financial cards.

“I’m not real optimistic,” Griffin told the scientists regarding any robot 
craft after NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission in late 2008.

At the Tempe gathering, Griffin also said the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle 
(CEV) project was budget-starved. That translates into the CEV not being 
ready until late 2014 - no earlier, under the best case, he said. By the 
time the NASA head winged his way back to Washington, D.C. to testify before 
Congress, the CEV readiness had slipped into 2015. Must be those 
hard-to-open airplane peanuts that gave Griffin extra time to number-crunch 
the CEV slip.