Space Expert Embraces Obama's NASA Plan
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
By: Tom Parkinson

President Obama will visit Kennedy Space Center Thursday to deliver a major policy address on the future of America's manned space program.

The speech comes as many on the Space Coast are angry about the President's plans to cancel NASA's Constellation program, which was supposed to replace the space shuttle after its retirement later this year with a vehicle that could send astronauts to the moon and Mars.
Mr. Obama's speech is part of a White House Space Conference at Kennedy Space Center. Our guest, Dale Ketcham, will be among the panelists at the event. Mr. Ketcham is the  director of the University of Central Florida's Spaceport Research and Technology Institute at Kennedy Space Center.
He spoke with 90.7’s Tom Parkinson from the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
Ketchum says he thinks President Obama will fill in more of the specifics about his plans for NASA's human spaceflight program at Thursday's event.

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