[Moonman62]

Oh, let’s quit beating around the BUSH, this was all about doing away with any chance of GWB being put down in the history books as a visionary, some one who advanced mankind by moving off planet.

How can repeating what we did over 40 years ago be visionary?

[tet68]

Returning to the moon and establishing a permanent base
is hardly just repeating what we did 40 years ago.

If you want the truth, socialism killed our chances of
a continous moon/space program, sucking precious research
dollars out and flushing them down nonproductive feel good
“welfare” rat holes in order to buy voters to continue
the march of socialism in one of the last free countries.