Farewell to the moon
Damien Perrotin, The View from Brittany
It is a strange moment when you see an once cutting edge technology die. Of course, the common wisdom of our age – the so-called myth of progress – claims it cannot happen. Technologies may be made obsolete, they can turn out to be impasses, but it is unthinkable for a whole avenue of progress to simply close down. That is exactly what has happened, however, when President Obama canceled the Constellation Program, and that tells a lot about the fate of technology in a energy poor future.


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Obama Scrubs NASA's Manned Moon Missions

Perhaps the only sensible thing he's done so far, though he hasn't eliminated NASA completely, and there are still grandiose plans of going to Mars, the asteroids, and so on.

NASA - Constellation
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