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NASA’s jettisoning of the rocket programme that would return it to the moon has been called everything from “a brave reboot” to “a giant step from greatness to mediocrity”. One figure has yet to comment on NASA’s future – the US president. That could change next month, when Barack Obama will attend a major meeting in Florida to flesh out the agency’s new plans.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration axed the Constellation programme, a scheme to replace the space shuttle with rockets capable of taking astronauts into orbit…
