Mongoose said:

“Obama will nix Bush’s Moon/Mars Exploration revamping of NASA, arguambly the most visionary initiative of his tenure.”

The current story is that Obama will simply ignore NASA (that’s what Bill Clinton did). The 2008 NASA budget in 2007 dollars is $ 17.138 billion. As crazy as it sounds, $ 17.138 billion is insignficant compared to Medicare, Social Security, Defense Dept., etc. NASA’s budget is so small that it’s in the background noise. Obama will simply let NASA run on autopilot, e.g. he won’t even bother to change NASA’s current administrator even though the administrator was a George Bush appointee.