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HARDtalk: John Olson - Manager of Space Station operations at NASA

17/07/2009

John Olson - Manager of Space Station operations at NASA

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Kevin Connolly asks senior NASA administrator John Olson if space is a step too far.

At the NASA headquarters in Washington Kevin Connolly asks one of NASA's senior administrators, John Olson, if further costly missions are appropriate in a time of recession.

America's space agency, NASA, is again planning to take humans to the moon and by 2037, the first manned mission to Mars. Kevin Connolly talks to one of NASA's senior administrators, John Olson, at the NASA headquarters in Washington. As the US government attempts to steer the country out of the economic recession, he asks whether outer space is just a step too far.

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