NOOOO!

Obama wants to axe the moon mission. The one big government thing I want to spend more money on and Obama—who wants to spend money on everything—cuts it from the budget.

In their place, according to White House insiders, agency officials, industry executives and congressional sources familiar with Obama’s long-awaited plans for the space agency, NASA will look at developing a new “heavy-lift” rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low Earth orbit. But that day will be years — possibly even a decade or more — away.

In the meantime, the White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects — principally, researching and monitoring climate change — and on a new technology research and development program that will one day make human exploration of asteroids and the inner solar system possible.

I’m sick and tired of this puttering around LEO crap.  Let the earth-scientists worry about Earth and let the rocket scientist do something about space. Whatever happened to our reach exceeding our grasp cause that’s what a heaven for? NASA’s been frittering away decades already or I’d be living on the moon by now.

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