Source: The Washington Times
Pity poor NASA. Rather than reaching toward the stars, America’s premier scientific organization has settled its sights on studying shrimp schools beneath the Antarctic ice cap and sticky accelerators on Toyotas. Such is the scope of hope and change in President Obama’s universe.
In his 2011 budget, the president zeroed out NASA’s Constellation project, the package of launch and landing vehicles that were to replace the aging space shuttle fleet to carry Americans into space. As a candidate, Mr. Obama said he “endorses the goal of sending human missions to the moon by 2020, as a precursor in an orderly progression to missions to more distant destinations, including Mars.” The O Force changed its mind. Killing the Constellation project means billions wasted while space-flight hardware collects dust. “Yes we can” has become “mission impossible.”
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