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user-inactivated · 2597 days ago · link · · parent · post: Congress passes NASA funding bill, Mars mission date set
I just realized that I didn't type constellation program in the post above. I just typed it. That's my bad. But then I was reading up on it anyway. Consteallation was the program Bush announced to get back to the moon by 2020 with the end-goal of a manned mission to Mars somehow based on the lessons learned from that program. Obama did in fact cancel that program on the recommendation of the Augustine commission. But they recommended it because he delayed funding for the program for five years to fund education, during which time the project became impossible to complete.