On Jan 28, 3:57*pm, Double-A wrote:
NASA to get more money, but must scratch moon plan
1/28/2010, 1:44 p.m. PST
The Associated Press

(AP) — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is essentially grounding
plans to return astronauts to the moon and instead is sending NASA in
new directions with roughly $6 billion more.

A White House official confirmed Thursday that when next week's budget
is proposed, NASA will get an additional $5.9 billion over five years,
as first reported in Florida newspapers. Some of that money will be
used to extend the life of the International Space Station to 2020.
The official said it also will be used to entice companies to build
private spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the space station after the
space shuttle retires.

An aide to an elected official who was told of the plans said Obama is
basically ending the return-to-the-moon effort pushed by President
George W. Bush. So far, that effort has cost $9.1 billion.

In reality, it has likely cost us twice that amount, and at best
we're not even 5% there. Even their LRO mission is bogus in ways of
need-to-know or nondisclosure that makes their past Apollo era seem as
perfectly kosher as it needs to look.

As per usual, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is in the
nearest spendy space toilet, that doesn't work half the time.

~ BG