President Obama visits the Space Coast on April 15th

Spaceref.com Article from Sunday

WASHINGTON - On April 15, President Barack Obama will visit Florida to host
a White House Conference on the Administration's new vision for America's
future in space, the White House today announced.

The President, along with top officials and other space leaders, will discuss
the new course the Administration is charting for NASA and the future of
U.S. leadership in human space flight. Specifically, the conference will
focus on the goals and strategies in this new vision, the next steps, and the new
technologies, new jobs, and new industries it will create. Conference topics
will include the implications of the new strategy for Florida, the nation, and
our ultimate activities in space.

Further logistical details will be announced as they become available.

After an independent review panel found that the previous program to return astronauts to the Moon was fundamentally un-executable, the
President included an additional $6 billion for NASA in his FY2011 budget over
the next five years.

This funding will help us achieve our boldest aspirations in space. The
President's ambitious new strategy pushes the frontiers of innovation to set
NASA on a more dynamic, flexible, and sustainable trajectory that can propel
us on a new journey of innovation and discovery.

The President and the NASA Administrator both believe that we have to be
forward thinking and aggressive in our pursuit of new technologies to take us
beyond low-Earth orbit. The President's plan does this.

A foundational element of this new strategy is to invest in the development
of a targeted set of inter-related technologies and capabilities that can help
us travel from the Earth's cradle to our nearby Solar System neighborhood in a
more effective and affordable way, thus laying the foundation to support
journeys to the Moon, asteroids, and eventually to Mars.

After years of underinvestment in new technology and unrealistic budgeting,
the President's plan will unveil an ambitious plan for NASA that sets the agency
on a reinvigorated path of space exploration.