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[i]After President Obama spoke at the Kennedy Space Center last week, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) said that while he supported the president's plan in general, "we'll change some things" in Congress, suggesting that accelerating development of a heavy-lift vehicle would be one of them. "I think we can make the decision much sooner" than 2015, he said. Wednesday, he took a step to do just that. Nelson announced that he had won an extra $726 million for NASA in the FY2011 budget resolution that was marked up Wednesday by the Senate Budget Committee, on which Nelson serves. The additional money, he said, would be used for continued work on a heavy-lift vehicle. "If we're going to Mars, as the president has said, then let's get going," he said in a statement. "We shouldn't wait five years." In comments during the markup, Nelson elaborated on this, suggesting that such a heavy-lift vehicle would be derived from the Ares family of vehicles that would be canceled under the president's plan. The additional funding, he said, would be used because "as we are confronting a program of testing a large-diameter solid rocket motor, which is critical to the Department of Defense, and of which is a good example of one hand of the federal government not knowing what the other hand was doing - Defense Department and NASA - and NASA goes in and cancels this test."[/i]
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