George W. Bush cancelled the Space Shuttle program. Now Barack Obama wants to cancel Bush’s plan for going back to the Moon—at least for the moment. That’s provoked a battle over the budget for NASA featuring a public relations blitz by Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan and Jim Lovell—heroes of space exploration 40 years ago. Today, President Obama’s in Florida pushing his vision.
Obama's Vision for US Space Exploration
Credits
Guests:
- Robert Block - Space Editor, Orlando Sentinel
- Jeff Greason - President, XCOR Aerospace
- Scott Pace - George Washington University's Space Policy Institute
- Jonathan McDowell - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - @planet4589