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The Emerald Eye Editor in Chief Greg Mason Staff Writers Jennifer Chao Lisa Chase Kendall Greenland Samuel Kane Azusa Chiba Jessamyn Kedl Sang-Jin Kim Sean Odell Luke Simmons Garrett Williams VOLUME I, ISSUE II HTTP://IWEB. SCISDRAGONS. NET/JOURNALISM/ FEB... More

The Emerald Eye Editor in Chief Greg Mason Staff Writers Jennifer Chao Lisa Chase Kendall Greenland Samuel Kane Azusa Chiba Jessamyn Kedl Sang-Jin Kim Sean Odell Luke Simmons Garrett Williams VOLUME I, ISSUE II HTTP://IWEB. SCISDRAGONS. NET/JOURNALISM/ FEB 2010 PAGE 1 The Emerald Eye Put your advertisement here! Be seen and talked about! To purchase ad space contact Mr. Mason at gmason@scischina. org SAM KANE STAFF WRITER In a budget proposal submitted to Congress on February 1, President Obama outlined plans to increase NASA s budget by $300 million, but with an increased emphasis on technologies pertaining to spacecraft fuel, engines, and robotics. Most notably, however, the new budget would cancel NASA s Constellation Program, a program focused on rockets and spacecraft designed to eventually return humans to the moon. Canceling the Constellation Program would fundamentally change the nature of NASA operations. Without the Constellation Program, NASA would not manufacture its ow Less