NASA would spend 4.25 billion on its COMMERCIAL CREW DEVELOPMENT (CCDEV) program during the next five years under President Barack Obama's proposed FY 2012 budget plan. The Administration has proposed spending 850 annually for FY2012-2016 on the program, which is designed to field commercial rockets and spacecraft to carry crew and cargo to and from Earth orbit.During that same period, NASA would spend 14.051 billion on its Orion capsule and a heavy-lift vehicle. The plan is spend 2.81 billion annually on those programs, which are designed to give NASA the capability to perform orbital and deep-space missions.The Administration's CCDev plan was praised by the COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT FEDERATION in a press release this morning, reports DOUG MESSIER AT PARABOLIC ARC, THE WASHINGTON POST, MSNBC, AFP, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NATIONAL JOURNAL, and TALLAHASSEE.COM. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says more about the SPACE AGENCY BUDGET.
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