[crail]

We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit.

Not on the moon. There's nothing an astronaut could learn on our planned return the moon some 20 years from now that a robot couldn't learn today. I'm not saying don't explore, I'm saying stop exploring our backyard for such an exorbant price. The moon?!? We want to go to the moon?!? We have probes on mars, audio from saturn, photos from the other side of the universe, robots crashing into asteroids to kick up dust for other robots. That's not exciting enough??? Would pictures of men giving beautiful speeches on the moon be more exciting??? With the recent refocus, we're instead going to focus the money to have pictures of astronauts kicking up dust doing lunar "research." That money will come out of the science budget.

[Names Ash Housewares]

There is so much left do do on the moon. Practice for Mars. Radio astronomy on the far side. Learning how to live in space colonies. Extracting water and air from the soil. Learning to build shelters. Exploring our closest neighbor that we have scarcely trod on at all.

Watch "From the Earth to the Moon" Episode about Apollo 15 and Professor Lee Silver.