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Democratic Glenn supports Obama's plan, announced earlier this year, to keep the space station going until 2020 and to give up on a moon base for now. But the original Mercury 7 astronaut said the nation needs a rocketship capable of lifting heavy payloads
-- whether it's part of NASA's Constellation program or something else
-- if astronauts are ever to reach asteroids and Mars. Private companies, meanwhile, interested in carrying astronauts back and forth to the space station need to first prove their capability and reliability, Glenn noted. "I'm very leery of this rush to commercialization," he said. Glenn said he waited to go public because he thought "people would see the wisdom" of keeping the shuttle going. "If we're going to do anything, if has to be done pretty quick," he said. ___ Online: John Glenn School of Public Affairs: http://glennschool.osu.edu/news/space.html
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