Let me get this straight: We’re increasing military and spy spending geometrically every year until now they account for over 70% of our entire budget, building billion-dollar super-fortress “embassies” throughout the world while maintaining 800+ other bases, expanding the war in Afghanistan, but we have to cut out scientific advancement and the future human exploration of the solar system?
Well, this is it, the Cheney-esque conquest of government by and for the public is complete. They have now sold our future out to private, commercial enterprises.
And a Democrat completed the act. This is how Hope dies.
I’m done. Fuck all you warmongering assholes.
Obama cancels Moon return project
President Barack Obama has cancelled the American project designed to take humans back to the Moon.
The Constellation programme envisaged new rockets and a new crewship called Orion to put astronauts on the lunar surface by 2020.
But in his 2011 budget request issued on Monday, Mr Obama said the project was too costly, “behind schedule, and lacking in innovation”.
US space agency Nasa has already spent $9bn (£5.6bn) on the programme.
The president said Constellation was draining resources from other US space agency activities. He plans instead to turn to the private sector for launch services.