Constellation Cancellation Reaction

"this amounts to a slow death of our nation's human space flight program"

Dead bang accurate!

How sad for our nation this President is so utterly visionless. What a WASTE of potential.
He could have really hit home run and lifted spirits.

Obama is NO hero of human exploration of space that is for sure!

I will oppose this leap backwards to my utmost.
Obama is not undefeatable on this!

FIGHT FOR NASA!

Both Democrats and Republicans are coming out against any cancellation of our return of the Moon. Bipartisanship at last!

I just can't see President Obama fighting the Congress on this one. I just don't think his heart is in it!

I thought Republican were all for government getting out of industry's way to allow progress? Now Obama does that and it's the end? Repubs are anti-Obama no matter what he does, no principles, just wish-wash. It is the end of NASA human spaceflight and the beginning of US human spaceflight. Maybe now we will see some progress.

We'll see some progress alright. They're already begging the tax payers to continue funding the ISS after 2015 at $2 billion a year which is going to prevent NASA (the people's space program) from setting up permanent bases on the Moon. So we won't get to the Moon because of corporate interest but I guess the corporations know what's best for us anyway:-)

Marcel F. Williams

Republicans are against giving up human access to space to other countries for many years. A sound principal would be to have NASA provide human access to space until the commercial world can demonstrate reliable access.

"Republicans are against giving up human access to space to other countries for many years. A sound principal would be to have NASA provide human access to space until the commercial world can demonstrate reliable access."

Tell Bush that. The gap kept growing during his terms because NASA wasn't funded adequately to field Ares 1 soon after the shuttle retired. We were already going to be dependent on Russia "for many years" before Obama even took office.

Bush wasn't interested that much about space to keep things going. This is a problem of both parties though. The Republican and Democratic Congress have failed to adequately fund a replacement. They generally wait until it's a crisis which is a sorry way to run things.

I love the way all the revisionism of history is taking place. Congress has been controlled by the Democrats since 2007 and since budgets begin in the House, they bear some responsibility for the mess in which the nation's space program finds itself. Was Bush a "friend" of the program? No. Was any White House occupant since LBJ? No. So let's stop the Republican vs. Democrat crap and realize that the politicians are not interested in the space program EXCEPT when it comes to funneling money to their districts or their pet government organizations. Cynical? Maybe. Realistic? Yes. Idealistic? Indeed. Contrary to many, I intend to continue the argument for the moon and Mars and not be distracted by the mode. Cancel Ares? Fine, but I will not accept anything short of the moon and Mars in my correspondence to my politicians. To do anything else is to tell them that I accept mediocracy and there is way to much of that type of thinking in Washington and sadly in some of the posters on this forum.

Rant over.

I love the way all the revisionism of history is taking place. Congress has been controlled by the Democrats since 2007 and since budgets begin in the House, they bear some responsibility for the mess in which the nation's space program finds itself. Was Bush a "friend" of the program? No. Was any White House occupant since LBJ? No. So let's stop the Republican vs. Democrat crap and realize that the politicians are not interested in the space program EXCEPT when it comes to funneling money to their districts or their pet government organizations. Cynical? Maybe. Realistic? Yes. Idealistic? Indeed. Contrary to many, I intend to continue the argument for the moon and Mars and not be distracted by the mode. Cancel Ares? Fine, but I will not accept anything short of the moon and Mars in my correspondence to my politicians. To do anything else is to tell them that I accept mediocracy and there is way to much of that type of thinking in Washington and sadly in some of the posters on this forum.

Rant over.