Back to The Plan; Not Plan B, Bolden Says

After wide ranging reports that NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden had directed that a Plan B be developed to forge a Congressional compromise and abandon the President's NASA FY 11 budget plan on the future of NASA, the leader of the space agency set the record straight today: Back to The Plan, Plan A; not Plan B.

"During a Strategic Management Council meeting on Tuesday, I asked JSC Director Mike Coats and MSFC Director Robert Lightfoot to put together a very small team to help me develop an accelerated plan for research and development on a heavy lift launch vehicle for future exploration, in support of that element of the President's FY11 NASA budget. Regrettably, this was subsequently reported by the news media as a request for a "Plan B" alternative to the President's budget," says NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden.