Full eclipse of the moon

This isn't good for NASA... and dare I say, it isn't good for the country:

NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there, if President Obama gets his way.

When the White House releases its budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was to return humans to the moon by 2020. The Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to return to the moon. There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases.

"We certainly don't need to go back to the moon," one administration official said.

Instead, according to White House insiders, agency officials, industry executives and congressional sources familiar with Obama's plans, NASA will look at developing a "heavy-lift" rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low-Earth orbit. That day will be years away.

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 designed to someday enable human exploration of asteroids and the inner solar system.

In other words, NASA will become a bigger cog in the wheel purposed in fooling the American public and Western nations into believing the global warming hoax.

Tis a sad day folks... a very sad day.

Crossposted(*).

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

“The White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects -- principally, researching and monitoring climate change…”

Exactly how much more evidence will the Global Warming fools need to convince them that they are so pathetically wrong? Maybe glaciers in Miami?

[GM Roper]

Hey Diddle Diddle,
The Cat and the Fiddle
The US has been to the moon.
But Obama has coaxed
NASA into the GW Hoax;
So we won't be going back real soon!

[Locutisprime]

There is going to be some global warming alright and I can promise you that it will be man made global warming.

Thermonuclear warming to be exact and it is coming to a community near you in the not too distant future.

Compliments of this regime in Washington.

[Mrs. B]

We can't fund NASA but we can fund the medicare wielding, coach purse carrying, gun carrying, one dollar per visit or prescription paying people who then sell those same prescriptions for five dollars a pill to buy more crack and shoot more people. Yep...sounds like a fair trade.

[DRH]

Snicker. The Village Voice is linking you as some kind of weird, nagative example of ... something.

I just think that it's funny that the lefties like to call the righties "anti-science" ... but when it's actual, non-politically-useful honest-to-God science, the don't give a damn.