"To the Moon, Alice!"

Or not, as it would seem.

Glenn Reynolds muses...

But will Obama back other means of promoting space exploration? My own guess is that he’s actually hostile too space, regardless of budget priorities, but who knows?

It's not that hard to know, actually.

The left has always been hostile to the space program, mostly for one overlying reason -- because it represents the height of human endeavor and is the starkest repudiation of the denialists who prefer to conceive of humans as nothing more than the brutes at the top of the food chain.

Obama may be making all the noises of wanting to shift the focus of space exploration, onto the private sector, but how long before that shift gets paired with a raft of new and stifling regulations, making commercial space flight too onerous and too expensive to bother with?  Because stifling it is the point, you see...

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[proof]

"It took 100,000 years for humans to get inches off the ground. Then, astonishingly, it took only 66 to get from Kitty Hawk to the moon. And then, still more astonishingly, we lost interest, spending the remaining 30 years of the 20th century going around in circles in low earth orbit, i.e., going nowhere."

-Charles Krauthammer, Jan 31, 2000

[Texas Canuck]

No worries, Americans can always hitch a ride in the Chinese rocket, Moon Go Fly Plan.

Seriously, if there is a way to discourage innovation, motivation and spirit in the American psyche then this is it. Kennedy had his faults but to challenge America to go to the moon first was sheer genius.