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WASHINGTON — NASA, best known as the agency that put the first man on the moon, is about to end its moon program for the foreseeable future.
Under legislation passed by the House late Wednesday, the nation’s space-flight program will take a new direction. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will turn to private companies to launch astronauts into space, while it starts work on a larger rocket for travel to more distant destinations — an asteroid, perhaps, and eventually Mars.
