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Duh.
>Oil on the Moon
LoL. Guess not. So that is not the reason.
This year is an election one, so this is a standard move for a dork like Bush to try to look like a leader. But the objective is necessarily far out, and besides the geeks no one really cares that much about it.
Bottom line: this is Bush's try at leadership and another pathetic attempt at copying Kennedy's famous speech, like Nixon did when he announced the Shuttle program (which was curtailed later), Reagan with his "Space station Freedom" -- for which all the budget was spent but no hardware was ever built --, Bush 41st and his (rejected) Mars trip and so on.
All politics, no substance *whatsoever*. The last time there was substance in a space program was when Clinton decided, out of post-cold-war politics and economics, to build the space station with the Russians.
Besides that, its all BALONEY.
And yes, it is about time the stuttle gets replaced, but as the replacement will be a cheapo vehicle rather than a more capable one, well, I am not looking forward to that.
About time NASA gets its ass out of low Earth Orbit and moves to one of the Lagrange's points. if they want to go to the moon from there, that suits me fine. but first, a spaceport in lagrange's point and a *finished* long-term space station in low earth orbit
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