The article asserts otherwise.
The goal of Constellation is to eventually get us to Mars. Perhaps I'm a dreamer, but I believe that's a goal that defines us as human. And as it fires the imaginations of young people, how is that not worthy given our other budget priorities?
Plus, as looking ever skyward, we would be the better prepared to deal with the contingency of possibly being clobbered by a meteroric or cometary body in the not necessarily so distant future. They come hair-raisingly close more often than one might otherwise think.
“This is madness! This is OBAMA!”
The ideal of individual freedom works best on frontier
societies where individuals make their mark on history.
In the rat warren megacities of today, socialism is
the prominant structure and is perhaps right for those
packed into living like that.
We need space, the moon, mars and someday beyond if
we are to survive as humans, especially as free humans.
I have only to look at that budget breakdown to know that
we pour more money down socialist rat holes than we ever
could spend on our exploration program.
My best t.
The article is wrong. What the reporter probably means is that most congresspeople who have had anything to say about it have complained. But they're not going to have control over the budgets. And very few have weighed in.
The goal of Constellation is to eventually get us to Mars.
In theory. In practice, it was never likely to do that. And if it did it would be decades away. The new plan is much more likely to get us to Mars (and many other places) than Constellation ever was, and much sooner and more affordably.