PRESIDENT OBAMA - SEND NASA TO THE MOON, SAVE THE SPACE SHUTTLE.

President Obama should reset the priorites for NASA - land a man on the moon and establish a permanent scientific base - from which to explore space.

We were second in the space race, after the USSR / Russia launched Sputnik and then we / the USA played catch up - We won - We put a man on the moon. We planted the flag, but we retreated (some say, we never landed on the moon).

President Kennedy set an ambitious goal - President Obama should extend the Shuttle Program and resend our astronauts to the MOON, a no less ambitious goal, that we can meet and lead the world.

We must save the Space Shuttle - we should not, cannot depend on the Russians, the Chinese, or others to pass us by...we cannot depend on other countries to carry our astronauts into space and return them. The Space Shuttle may not have fulfilled its entire objectives, but it has been a dependable reliable method of putting astronauts into space, and bringing them home - to the USA, and a reliable cargo carrier to the Space Station. The Space Shuttle program should be continued and we should land a man on the moon - not an astroid or Mars or any other place, until the moon is colonized as a scientific base.