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Return to Flight

By Dickey, Beth
Publication: Government Executive
Date: Sunday, August 15 2004
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NASA is shifting its spending efforts toward acquiring new space exploration technology. BY BETH DICKEY

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LANDSCAPE Soon, NASA hopes to be exploring the moon with manned and unmanned rovers.

NASA's 2005 procurements will further the space agency's, efforts to bring to life two dreams-one grounded in reality and another soaring among the stars.

NASA already has begun acquiring the technology it needs to heed President Bush's January call for Americans to return to the moon by the end of the next decade. In the coming fiscal year, NASA will step up the pace of research and technology procurements related to the nation's new space exploration initiative. At the same time, it will move closer to its long-standing goal of integrated financial management by outsourcing day-to-day business activities to a commercial hub.

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