We certainly don’t need to go back to the moon
Wow. So much for Obama supporting NASA! If there was any doubt in my mind that Obama was a GIGANTIC mistake, it’s gone now.
NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and expensive Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for its bigger brother, the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to take humans back to the moon.
There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all.
Obama aims to ax moon mission – OrlandoSentinel.com
This quote is especially upsetting to me:
“We certainly don’t need to go back to the moon,” said one administration official.
Obama aims to ax moon mission – OrlandoSentinel.com
February 9th, 2010 at 10:38 am
I think this was one more huge mistake on the part of the Obama administration. The best thing the US could do is lift restrictions on private launch companies. Imagine the possibilities. And I don’t mean stupid space tourism. I mean real work. Mining, manufacturing, the list goes on. As Spock would say, “Fascinating.”
February 11th, 2010 at 1:30 am
Honestly, the amount of money being saved is a drop in the bucket. I think this is a public relations nightmare because I think that generally people like that America is #1 in the world for space travel and space exploration.
It’s giving up yet another lead to other countries.
Like my Lord and Personal Savior Jesus Christ once said (paraphrasing): The poor with always be with us but unless we get off this rock and explore the Universe we are going to be screwed.