This appears to be 'it.' There is no money in Obama's just-announced budget for the Ares I program, the heavy-lifter Ares V system, or the entire Constellation program. There will be no moon bases, no lunar landers, nothing.
Well, not quite true, and a fight is certainly expected. Funding is included to extend the International Space Station Mission to 2020 as was hoped, but: the Space Shuttle program has ended, and 7,000 jobs have already been cut at Kennedy Space Center. Shortly, only the Russians will have any means of getting there. The US intends to offer 'incentives' to private companies to develop the capability of shuttling humans and cargo to the ISS. Yeah, well...
It's quite possible that we have seen both the first -- and the last --Americans to set foot on the moon, all in one generation.
Monday, February 1, 2010
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