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For a long time 0bama’s website stated that he'd cut back NASA and delay the moon project, using the cash to pay for education, since it was education that won the space race before (it was education that won the Cold War too, I think). This NASA policy was buried in the education policy section. If I remember correctly, the Shuttle follow-on was going to be dropped when Shuttle funding stopped in 2010.

When attention was focused on these couple of paragraphs, the text was changed, it no longer says that, but this article suggests that NASA employees remember what used to be there.

With 0bama in office, space will belong to India, China, and Japan, with lots of support from Russia. Our teachers unions will have better pensions and smaller classrooms, though!