Rand Simberg
2010-07-06 15:50:12
Apollo was a great success.
It was such a great success that we haven’t been back to the moon in almost four decades.
Constellation would have allowed us to return to the moon and set the stage for future manned spaceflight missions beyond Earth orbit.
Not in any affordable way.
Obama’s plan, in the end, will result in the death of manned space flight–by the U.S., at any rate.
A plan that extends the ISS for at least half a decade, has crew flying to it on multiple American vehicles much sooner and at a far lower cost than Ares/Orion, and a technology development program to dramatically reduce the cost of sending people beyond earth orbit is the “death of manned space flight by the US.”
Right. Another dispatch from Bizarro world.
