(August 5, 2010 at 7:54 am)Tiberius Wrote: I think Obama realized the economy just couldn't support space flights right now...
I agree with you, Adrian, but the decision is more political than economic. Obama is still willing to spend
in order to promote 'green' technology and it is a well-established fact that so much modern technology came out of the early space program that it seems a worthy investment for a country which wants to get its edge back.
BUT.
It's also an easy target for the deficit cutters (and where were they when Bush was driving the deficit through the roof?) to focus on and so what we have here is a pre-emptive strike by Obama to defuse that issue. But it still makes more sense to me to spend money going to the moon or Mars than to try to control a barbarian-infested rock pile like Afghanistan.
