OBAMA CRUSHES SPACE DREAMS – AT 6:01 P.M. ET:  Great presidents understand that this is a dreaming society.  Americans love to shoot for the stars.  Less than great presidents intellectualize things to death, including dreams.  What do you think we have today?  From the Orlando Sentinel:

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.

President Kennedy must be spinning in his grave at Arlington.

And get this:

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.

COMMENT:  When this nation stops dreaming, it stops being the United States.  So the White House wants NASA to roll up the dreams and concentrate on...climate change.

How veddy intellectual.  Young kids around America, who draw pictures of spacecraft in their notebooks, must be thrilled.

January 27, 2010