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Pulling the Plug on Space Travel: One Small Step for Obama's Budgetary Math

When John Kennedy made his commitment to land a man on the moon by the end of 1960s, the New Frontier president expressed a dream that went far beyond Cold War pride in planting an American flag on the lunar surface. Addressing a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, Kennedy also spoke glowingly of the "promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself." Nearly half a century later, the last flickering embers of that dream were extinguished in a single bullet point ...

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