Cancer research? Please,,, The cost of the Space Station has been around 100 billion, spread over 30 YEARS. Thats about 10 months of the war in Iraq.
Or try about 18 months of the dept of education budget.
There are legitimate things to criticize NASA for; woman astronauts with the frizzy hair and no sense to put it in a ponytail, Hansen and his global warming Jihad, always having to carry a foreigner and being terrified of ever seeming “American”, the muslim outreach program,,,etc. But the Space Station is about the only thing they’ve done right lately. And there is nothing but a pittance to save by canceling it.
The space program was the ultimate display of American greatness during the Cold War. Barack Obama is not only not a believer in American Exceptionalism - he is a militant believer in American Unexceptionalism. To him, the space program is an arrogant display. And America needs humbling.
The man found trillions to dig ditches and fill them again. The only things he cuts are defense - and the space program.