Farewell To The Good Old Glory Days

The new NASA budget, recently unveiled this month, is calling for outsourcing of rocket development for manned space flights to commercial companies. As this was historically a great strength of NASA, an approval from Congress on this point will be a sore spot for the organization. Although some cuts were expected, such as the Constellation Program to send humans back to the Moon by 2020, the cutting of rocket development was a huge shock. Although I find it understandable that these cuts were made, due to the extraordinary amount of debt that the US has fallen into, I think that the priorities for national spending should be carefully examined before the easiest programs are simply shunned into the corner.