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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. Re:Sad news by Volante3192 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Using NASA's nickel to pay off a $10 debt isn't going to do jack though.

  2. Re:We choose by Volante3192 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it's far easier and practical politically to scale back space ambitions.

    You can't pay off a $10 debt with a nickle, but that's what they're trying to do. Plus, the only people that like NASA are those elitist geeks. Ask the common man what NASA does and you'll likely get "Weren't them the idjits who mixed up inches and them foreign measurements?"

    No one ever got voted out of office for cutting NASA's budget.
    Cut social security, medicare, defense, and you'll be assassinated before the next election.