On to Mars

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009/04/nasa-likely-to-scrap-plans-to-build-moon-base.html

This makes sense to me. Save the money on building the infrastructure of a Moon base and use it to accelerate the replacement of the shuttle with Orion. Instead of the Moon, fly Orion to a near Earth asteroid (NEO) first. NEO's are much more dangerous than global warming and we need to know more about them.

When the Chinese land on the Moon for a flags and footprint photo-op, the cry will go out saying we already went to the Moon, we need to get to Mars to show them up!

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