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NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.

When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and expensive Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for its bigger brother, the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to take humans back to the moon.

There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all.

In their place, according to White House insiders, agency officials, industry executives and congressional sources familiar with Obama's long-awaited plans for the space agency, NASA will look at developing a new "heavy-lift" rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low Earth orbit. But that day will be years — possibly even a decade or more — away.

In the meantime, the White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects — principally, researching and monitoring climate change — and on a new technology research and development program that will one day make human exploration of asteroids and the inner solar system possible.

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This is just a way that he can funnel more money to the non-working class who live off the government.


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I don't know many more things that can be done to our state. We have a bunch of spineless weenies that just sit around and nod and mutter.
Pretending to be so judicial in their lofty jobs as representatives of the people. Big pay, little say unless of course it benefits one of them or their friends. It is disgraceful that we have to have special sessions just to run ordinary busines of the state. Our state needs total tax reform, Constitution rewrittten and better voter distribution.
"VOTE THE BAST**DS OUT"

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