WASHINGTON — Add more money to NASA’s budget or confine the U.S. space agency to low Earth orbit for another generation. That is the essence of the choices facing U.S. President Barack Obama after a blue-ribbon panel tasked with determining options for the future of NASA’s human spaceflight program delivered its findings to the White House Sept. 8.

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