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Apollo Legends Pan Obama Space Plan Before Congress

WASHINGTON — Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, told U.S. lawmakers May 12 that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently confided that the federal government may need to fund a “bailout” of entrepreneurial space firms if a commercial market fails to materialize for the crew taxis they are developing under the agency’s new plan.