I prayed for beautiful green skin Orion/Martian girls - they gave us red dust and rocks.
The White House should let NASA do what NASA does best, and butt out. We have a Shuttle program to replace so we don't have to rely on Russian Soyuz for a whole generation.
A better way to "butt out" is to abolish NASA and return the money to the taxpayers. Let private enterprise do handle this. Do we really want our oppressive federal government to extend its reach to space! At one time conservatives, like Buckley, were against the government space program. They were right.