On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:09:45 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Apparently no budget bump for NASA for work on Ares-1, and more money
shifted to commercial spaceflight options:
http://www.spacenews.com/policy/1001...s-unclear.html
...as well as environmental satellites, education programs, and research
and technology development.

Well, we can't say we didn't see this coming. Then Senator Obama
announced in 2007 that he would defer Constellation for five years to
pay for his Education Initiative. And here is it. Okay, he's not
officially deferring Constellation, but he's not requesting funds for
it either, which amounts to the same thing. Ares I is dead
(thankfully) but there will be little progress on Ares V-Lite without
a significant budget increase, especially with the new priorities
President Obama wants for NASA: more environmental satellites to
report disturbing climate information that no one in Washington will
do anything about. Yippee.

Brian