On April 15, U.S. President Barack Obama...

Obama"s vision for the future of the U.S. space program has created a deep rift in the space community. Advocates of new moon missions claim that Obama is essentially ceding space to Russia, China and even India. The "Martians" object to this argument, alleging that Obama"s critics fail to grasp the ambition and grandeur of his vision - in other words, his critics have no idea what they are talking about.

These critics include 27 of the biggest names in U.S. space exploration, including three Apollo astronauts: the legendary Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, and Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.

The astronauts wrote an open letter to Obama, urging him to reconsider his new policies, which will be "devastating" for the future of NASA. They say the United States will have to completely rely on Russia to send its astronauts into orbit for the next five years as a result of these changes

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