If U.S. President Barack Obama was hoping to inspire the nation with his “bold and ambitious” plan for restructuring the civil space program, then he has failed. Most Americans think first of human spaceflight — of astronauts — when the name of NASA is mentioned, and the dominant response to the president’s plan among people working in that part of the space program is despair. Thousands are going to lose their jobs, and the once-bright hope of mankind’s future in the stars is rapidly slipping away.
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