[decimon]

IMO this article appears to provide a justification, and equates Obama with the mythical JFK at the same time.

I don't see JFK as looking very good in this article. All to him was politics.

I don't think that NASA is much on peoples' minds these days so I don't think this helps or hurts Obama. Can you imagine any Republican candidate trying to make NASA a campaign issue?

[skeeter]

Why would AP choose this particular time to run a story on a topic no one is interested in?

Nah, this is typical legacy media Obama apologetics.