NASA may build the Ares V rocket, but it will need more cash to make the best use of it (Image NASA/MSFC)
Can NASA afford a shiny new generation of robotic space missions?
The agency is developing the brawny Ares V rocket to take astronauts back to the moon. But it is also hopes the rocket will double up as a heavy lifter for robotic science missions which the current shuttles are too puny to lift off the ground. In the works, though yet to be approved, are a visible-light space that would dwarf…
