Obama wants to cancel the moon mission and change NASA to do his own plans (starting with climate, of course). This is the problem of letting politicians run a science program in the first place. Let the private companies do science, and don't give them funding to bias the research.
Great news. I like the idea of first planning for our long-term goals in space, then executing to achieve those goals. The early years were all about knee-jerk responses to politics and feeding constituencies. Lately we put up a $100billion ISS that no scientist could figure out a use for... even contemplated burning the worthless thing!
The fossil-fueled binging is over. It's time to spend scarce resources to maximize the benefit for science and humanity.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 18.4 ms ] threadThe fossil-fueled binging is over. It's time to spend scarce resources to maximize the benefit for science and humanity.