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The Emerald Eye Editor in Chief Greg Mason Staff Writers Jennifer Chao Lisa Chase Kendall Greenland Samuel Kane Azusa Chiba Jessamyn Kedl Sang-Jin Kim Sean Odell Luke Simmons Garrett Williams VOLUME I, ISSUE II HTTP://IWEB. SCISDRAGONS. NET/JOURNALISM/ FEB... More

The Emerald Eye
Editor in Chief
Greg Mason
Staff Writers
Jennifer Chao
Lisa Chase
Kendall Greenland
Samuel Kane
Azusa Chiba
Jessamyn Kedl
Sang-Jin Kim
Sean Odell
Luke Simmons
Garrett Williams
VOLUME I, ISSUE II HTTP://IWEB.
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SAM KANE
STAFF WRITER
In a budget proposal submitted to Congress on February 1, President Obama outlined plans to increase
NASA s budget by $300 million, but with an increased emphasis on technologies pertaining to
spacecraft fuel, engines, and robotics.
Most notably,
however, the new budget would cancel NASA s
Constellation Program, a program focused on rockets and spacecraft designed to eventually return humans to the moon.
Canceling the Constellation
Program would fundamentally change the nature of
NASA operations.
Without the Constellation Program, NASA would not manufacture its ow Less