Thanks Obama! NASA Pulls Plug on Return to Moon

President Obama yanked the cord on President Bush's Constellation program meant to return the United States to the moon and eventually travel to Mars. President Obama changed NASA's top priority to outreach to the Muslim world.

And now it's paying off:

"NASA is not going to the Moon with a human as a primary project probably in my lifetime," Bolden told a joint meeting of the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board in Washington last week, according to Jeff Foust of SpacePolitics.com. "And the reason is, we can only do so many things."

Instead, he said the focus would remain on human missions to asteroids and to Mars. "We intend to do that, and we think it can be done." Meanwhile, interest in the moon has been growing in both the private sector and in foreign countries.

Russia is planning to go back and a Dutch company wants to send people to Mars in the next ten years. Great work, everyone!

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