Spaceflight Report Due Soon

摘要

With an expert panel's final report on options for U.S. human spaceflight expected to be released the week of Oct. 19, NASA and White House officials are said to be coalescing around the idea of sending astronauts on deep space missions to near-Earth objects and potentially the moons of Mars.rnA draft version of the final report, requested in April by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, is circulating within the White House and NASA.rn"The question now is funding," said one administration official who has seen the draft report.