NASA Celebrates Obama Victory

SamFisher · Nov 12, 2012

Buck up, Meowgi, you just may be able to move out of your parents house! Thanks, Obama!

Those In The Know tell Space.com that the space agency is likely to reveal a set of ambitious goals now that the president has locked up another four years in office.

Assuming that the rumored plans are indeed true, the next twenty to thirty years of space exploration might play out like a real-life Carl Sagan fantasy. Items on the rumored docket include: more manned missions to the moon, a manned outpost on the far side of the moon, a mission sending astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, and the commencement of manned missions to Mars by the mid-2030s.

According to space policy expert and George Washington University professor emeritus John Logsdon, the game plan has already been given the go-ahead by the White House, but senior NASA officials had decided to keep their plans under wraps until they were certain that Obama would be back in the Oval Office for a second term.

Mitt Romney had spoken plainly about his plans to re-evaluate the purpose of government-sponsored space missions, thereby leaving agency officials uncertain that their ambitious plans would remain feasible under a Republican-controlled executive branch. With this fear alleviated by Romney’s defeat, most signs point to an impending announcement from the agency about the future of American space exploration.
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