NASA gives up on the Moon

I was a little disappointed to hear that Barrack Obama’s budget cuts are going to force NASA to cancel their Constellation program which aimed to try and return to the Moon by 2010. In my opinion space exploration and climate change are probably the two most important goals any nation can set, so I’m really disappointed in this news. They’ve been trying to spin it by claiming that NASA will work on other programs and look past the Moon (meaning Mars) however I think that’s just spin talk at it’s best. In my opinion any deep space exploration will need to begin from space and the best way to do that is establish a permanent presence on the Moon that can be used as a launching pad for future endeavors