NASA Rethinks Technology Needs

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More than $1 billion worth of human and robotic technology projects selected for funding late last year by NASA's Exploration Systems mission directorate are on the chopping block as the U.S. space agency re-evaluates its technology investment strategy.

NASA Administrator Mike Griffin told an industry group last week that he intends to concentrate the agency’s exploration systems research and development budget on technologies promising near-term payoffs for the intertwined goals of retiring the space shuttle, fielding a shuttle replacement as soon as possible and getting humans back to the Moon by 2020.

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