Don Brunell - Mistake to bypass the moon

Canceling the Constellation program – the successor to America’s historic space shuttle program – is a huge mistake, but that is exactly what President Obama plans to do. He told folks at the Kennedy Space Center that he is also abandoning returning to the moon. Instead, he plans to send astronauts to asteroids and, eventually, to Mars.

Obama wants private companies to take over shuttling astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station, but until that happens, the U.S. would pay $50 million a pop for our astronauts to hitch a ride on Russian spacecraft.

In abandoning a lunar program, t...