NASA Boosts Commercial, Kills Ares

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The Obama administration's Fiscal 2011 NASA budget retargets agency funding on developing a U.S. commercial space-transportation industry, killing the "Moon, Mars and Beyond" Constellation Program in favor of a $6 billion "investment" in human-rating existing launch vehicles and developing a common crew vehicle to ride on them all.