Finally. Something he promised wound up getting cut and he took the initiative.

"Early in the next decade, a set of crewed flights will test and prove the systems required for exploration beyond low Earth orbit," the president said. "And by 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space. We’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it."

http://www.nasa.gov/about/obamaspeechfeature.html

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On this one, I give him a positive " Way to go! "

sounds like a waste of time to spend billions of dollars and just fly out go around and come back . thats what we have been doing all my life . I vote for a big step this . Do 10 things instead of just one . leave a base on the moon to jump from but baby steps are as big of a waste as welfare .

The plan for a manned landing on Mars isn't a big enough step for you??

Bush only wanted us to go back to the Moon for cryin out loud.

Give Obama credit for thinking outside the box and shooting for something bigger.

Sorry , I don't comprehend you:
In the other thread you mentioned this one as an example of praising Obama, but not much support.

1. you just posted it in the evening. Do you expect everybody waiting for you to post something and then jump in right away???

2. So far, 50% of the responses support his endeavor! (easy arithmetic: total number of responses (2) minus the number of negative responses (1) divided by 100!
For starters, that ain't bad!

3. Just because the other fellow doesn't comprehend, doesn't mean he deserves the whole 50%!!! (0.93% is more than enough for his educated opinion!!!)

Seems to me that we have enough problems here on Earth to work on.....especially, energy. Gas is getting ready to SOAR!!! AGAIN!!!May be a few short years or sooner.