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This is the best news I have ever heard. I'm glad that the government is pursuing space exploration once again.

Look a little deeper. He was not specific about very much. The Administration was surprised by the push back, so he gave a very charismatic, pretty speech, saying what people wanted to hear, with few concrete promises. Even the "restoration of Orion" is only less than 20% of its original scope. Don't hold your breadth.

lol how does it help economy?

They fail to even have the decency to hide their indecent spendings. Space exploration is for the countries like India or China who do produce something more than terrorists, weapons of mass destruction and kitch media and also have an excedentary balance. Hehehe, after all, they are the same ones who do it under the american flag as well.

Headline is subjective, (could be interpreted as POV) Perhaps US unveils revised space program would have been a more appropriate word choice.

While lacking in detail, the presidents' plan doesn't exactly scrap Constellation or the work done on that program. It refocuses some of it, and will hopefully result in a better, more cost effective plan moving forward.

The opposing argument was not represented in a credible way, but the article did reliably accomplish its goal as a press release for the POTUS. An accurately represented counterargument would be that the President not only had ended human spaceflight at NASA indefinitely with the cancellation of the Constellation program, resulting in an inevitable knowledge vacuum surrounding the piloting of spacecraft within NASA but also wasted billions of dollars in penalties by the cancellation of those contracts and furthermore the outsourcing of piloting human spacecraft to foreign nations.

If you had taken the time to read the article, you would have seen that the Constellation Program was retained, at least in a large part. The Orion capsule is to have development continued; hell, Obama even made provision for a new rocket instead of the Ares launchers. There's really no longer any downside to his plans, other than the shuttle retiring, which is, no doubt, why no-one's come up with a significant counter-argument.

While The space shuttle clearly needed to be retired (and replaced with a robust multi-stage rocket system), Outsourcing human spaceflight to private venture capitalists seems an unpromising and frankly dangerous option for the American Space Program. Granted, I would've expected a move like this from the Republicans, but to see it coming from Obama is disheartening indeed. Also the "Propulsion Breakthrough" that Obama seems to be investing his hopes in, seems more science fiction that reality. Despite massive improvements in precision and efficiency, Basic propulsion technology has scarcely improved since the 1960's. Perhaps this is yet another case of the "faith in the magic bullet of technology" that all too many leaders seem to believe will end the worlds problems, whether it be with Climate change, Peak oil, or our ability to explore space.

To describe the killing off of the space program as "revived space exploration" is just swallowing Obama's rhetoric wholesale. For shame! --65.51.209.126 (talk) 13:48, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

If only we could go to Mars right now...

Of course Obama wants to go to Mars. It's the only red planet out there.