UPDATE: NASA Working on Alternate Plan to Constellation Cancellation?

UPDATE: NBC correspondent Jay Barbree was on MSNBC earlier today talking about why he feels a Plan B is needed. Click here to view the segment.

ORIGINAL STORY:

Citing an internal NASA email, the Wall Street Journal reports today that NASA is working on “Plan B” in case Congress does not agree to cancel the Constellation program. The newspaper said that it had seen an email from NASA Johnson Space Center Director Michael Coats to other NASA centers and program offices saying that NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden had “agreed to let us set up a ‘Plan B’ Team” to “flesh out” alternatives. The newspaper asserted that “The move to draft a compromise highlights behind-the-scenes maneuvering by NASA officials to save big chunks of existing programs now in jeopardy,” but quoted an unnamed NASA spokesman as saying that Gen. Bolden and NASA “are fully committed to the President’s budget.”