Taking funds from NASA programs to support schools is
something I support and I would back Mr Obama's plans
to do that, but the question rapidly becomes which
programs should be cut and which are worthy of being
kept? The Manned Moon program is the one program I
feel is a necessity for America to persue.
It's no secret that I have long derided the Manned
Mars Mission as a one-off, bloated, dangerous,
spacebizcentric monstrosity designed to give the
maximum financial return to NASA and techonology
builders while having a minimum knowledge return to
the public. NASA has tuned its internal program
advancment to the ability of the funding that any
one program can produce, and not to the long term
benefit that a program will have for the American
public. In that respect I have no qualms in seeing
many of NASA's programs .....
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