Obama NASA Plans ‘Catastrophic’ say Moon Astronauts
From BBC News:
Former Nasa astronauts who went to the Moon have told the BBC of their dismay at President Barack Obama’s decision to push back further Moon missions.
Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, said Mr Obama’s decision would have “catastrophic consequences” for US space exploration.
The last man on the Moon, Eugene Cernan, said it was “disappointing”.
Last month Mr Obama cancelled Nasa’s Constellation Moon landings programme, approved by ex-President George W Bush.
Nasa still aims to send astronauts back to the Moon, but it is likely to take decades and some believe that it will never happen again.
‘Moral leadership’
The astronauts spoke to the BBC at a private event at the Royal Society in London on Friday organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
They were joined there by the first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong.
As the last astronaut to return to the Apollo 17 lunar module in 1972, Cernan was the last man to set foot on the Moon.
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