PASADENA, Calif. — Tight budgets will mean NASA must make its mission relevant to the American public, inspiring young people to enter technical and scientific fields and delivering new capabilities that grapple with climate change and assist with natural disasters around the globe, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said Sept. 16. Although she mentioned space exploration in passing, Garver studiously avoided discussion of the agency’s post-space shuttle manned spaceflight plans during a speech at the Space American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 2009 conference here.
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