Obama aims to axe moon mission

Obama wants to cancel the moon mission and change NASA to do his own plans (starting with climate, of course). This is the problem of letting politicians run a science program in the first place. Let the private companies do science, and don't give them funding to bias the research.

Great news. I like the idea of first planning for our long-term goals in space, then executing to achieve those goals. The early years were all about knee-jerk responses to politics and feeding constituencies. Lately we put up a $100billion ISS that no scientist could figure out a use for... even contemplated burning the worthless thing!

The fossil-fueled binging is over. It's time to spend scarce resources to maximize the benefit for science and humanity.