There have been a number of huge space-related decisions starting with the Obama campaign, which have caused me a lot of concern, moments of anger, and some genuine disgust. Regular readers of our little blog here will know that I’m not a reactionary kind of guy. I don’t hate the other party simply because they’re the other party, I don’t generally attack them. I do occasionally tease ‘em and I’m pretty open in my confusion about their thought processes, which frequently seem self-contradictory to me. I’m not that guy. I believe in America, I believe in the Two-Party system, I believe that the system is generally self-regulating, and if either side goes too far, the people will vote the extremists out of office.

That said, I don’t know what - aside from anger - to make of this:

Yes, yes, I know I've been doing a lot of this "Realspace" stuff this week, but thi one's pertinent, and we'll get back to the fake stuff tomorrow: Back in October, NASA launched the Ares 1-X rocket. For those of you who don't follow the real space program, here's the deal:

Just in time for Congress to cancel it, phase 2 of NASA's Lunar Lander Development Competition has started producing some pretty freakin' schwee results like these

http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=SP_090916_Ar...

So a couple weeks ago, NASA declared they’d found water on the moon - again - and they bombed the moon - again - and no one gave a damn - again. We’ve explained elsewhere why NASA’s so coo-coo for cocoa puffs over extraterrestrial water ( http://www.republibot.com/content/realspace-why-nasa-so-crazy-extraterre... ).

Not too long ago, I wrote a little article online here about how our Space Program is screwed, since Obama seems to oppose it. (That article http://www.republibot.com/content/realspace-things-are-looking-really-ba... ) Project Constellation is, of course, our attempt to get rid of this guilded turd that the Nixon administration saddled us with, and which we've been pointlessly flying - and killing people with - for very nearly a generation now (1981-2009).