Obama Pushing Taxpayer-Funded Asteroid Mining

(WND.com) The dreamy plan may be aided by Obama’s new directives to NASA. The president has reorganized the country’s space agency with the goal of landing on an asteroid. In April 2010, Obama outlined NASA’s new path.

“By 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space,” he said. “We’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history.”

His new directives were immediately slammed by famed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, who both told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that the space plans would harm NASA. Cernan said Obama’s space budget projects either show extreme naiveté or a willingness to accept a “plan to dismantle America’s leadership in the world of human space exploration.” Armstrong charged Obama’s space plan was “contrived by a very small group in secret.” “I believe the president was poorly advised,” Armstrong said. Read The Rest Of The Story