How about getting the gubmint out of NASA and letting private companies take over space exploration? Let the market decide, not gubmint bureaucrats.
But what I want to know is what carefully calibrated balance of skin color and gender will future astronauts have and what will their religions be and how many will be atheists, what about gays vs straights and don’t forget the LGBTs.
Can he end Obama’s primary mission of NASA now is to help Muslims feel good about themselves?
As far as manned exploration goes, by far the most sensible idea is to send mining robots to the Moon and eventually to Mars, with the idea of hard rock mining into cliff faces, to create tunnels eventually to be used as habitats.
This would accomplish something that NASA has neglected, to make such Lunar and Martian exploration cumulative. That is, the more underground habitat that is built, the less habitat the astronauts will eventually have to bring. In exchange, they can bring more food, fuel, and scientific equipment.