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I?VE BEEN A DEFENDER OF OBAMA?S NEW SPACE POLICY, but Neil Armstrong thinks I?m wrong. ?The first m?

By Glenn Reynolds

I’VE BEEN A DEFENDER OF OBAMA’S NEW SPACE POLICY, but Neil Armstrong thinks I’m wrong. “The first man to walk on the moon blasted President Barack Obama?s decision to cancel NASA?s back-to-the-moon program on Tuesday, saying that the move is ‘devastating’ to America?s space effort. . . . The letter was released to NBC News just two days in advance of Obama?s trip to NASA?s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a space policy summit. Obama is expected to flesh out his vision for the space agency’s future during his speech at the summit. . . . Armstrong and his fellow astronauts emphasize the bigger implications, however, and say in their letter that the decision would put the nation on a ‘long downhill slide to mediocrity.”’

For a more positive take, see Rand Simberg’s interview with NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, and his Report from the Space Access Society conference.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).