Well there is a Constitutional mandate to defend the nation, and allowing other nations to take the moon is a death warent forthis country. Rocks from space make waste -— to whatever they hit, likewhere you live.
Ouch!
And that’s what Hussein plans to allow - in direct contravention to his primary job - defendng the US and that means going to the moon now.
Ain’t no private company going to rise to that challenge.
The space program to picture places and send probes to planets is a waste of government funding IMHO. In defense matters, I am all for the spending. To talk to ET, no way, I can think of few programs more a waste of taxpayer money.
Sure, if it can be demonstrated that space exploration is related to national defense, I’m all for it. But consider this: We have slashed spending on programs which are indubitably about defense, like the F-22 and upgrading our nuclear missiles, while you want us to spend billions on manned exploration of Mars. Lifting anything out of the earth’s gravity is horrendously expensive in terms of energy and money. Meanwhile our enemies are pursuing cheap and effective weapons like jet fighters and cruise missiles.