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Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the selling-out-the-future dept.

bonch writes "Obama's budget proposal will contain no funding for the Constellation program, which was to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming. One anonymous official said: 'We certainly don't need to go back to the moon.'"

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  1. Unsurprising by jpmorgan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nobody should act surprised. He said he was going to kill Constellation during his original campaign.

  2. Re:Mars? by jpmorgan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. Constellation wasn't just the moon. It was the next generation of NASA rockets for human spaceflight. If Constellation is cancelled, this isn't just the end of the moon. It's the end of Mars too. Hell, it's the end of America's manned spaceflight program in general.