Obama supports new mission to the Moon Print E-mail

Monday, 05 January 2009 16:09

Moon Mission, Armstrong

Michael Griffin, an American physicist and Astronautical engineer and head of the U.S. space agency NASA was very concerned because the new U.S. president Barack Obama has not given clear signals about future projects of NASA during his election campaign.

Wife of the chief of NASA even sent a letter in which she asked new president of the United States to keep her husband Michael Griffin on the job even though he is one of the people employed in Bush's administration.

Michael Griffin fears that they will lose their jobs were realistic considering that the NASA future projects costs largely passed the state budget in times of economic crisis, and Barack Obama during the presidential campaign sent ambiguous signals about his support of NASA's programs.

However, doubt was dropped after Obama on Friday said that the 'wall between the Pentagon and NASA is to be demolished', and that mission to the Moon with a human crew will soon repeat.