Mainstream Media on ESAS

Boehlert: NASA won’t get “blank check” for new moon mission, WSTM.com

“[House Science Committee Chair] Boehlert says the space agency’s current schedule for a return to the moon may have to be adjusted because of budget constraints.”

A Medium Leap to the Moon, Time

“… A contemporary program with a 13-year deadline is precisely the kind of undertaking that can be frittered into nothing if future administrations lose the interest or the revenue to keep pursuing it.” — “… the new proposal is ostensibly part of the Bush administration’s grand moon-Mars initiative announced in early 2004. But Mars is not mentioned anywhere in the plans. Nor is the science the crews would perform once they get to the moon.”