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I witnessed the first moon landings as a child. I too would love to see America lead the way back to the moon. But as of right now no single nation, even the United States, can afford the costs. I think that as dissapointed as many of us feel about the budget cuts, we have to look at this in real terms. This delay will give us time to get smarter with a return to the moon program. And lets combine government, private industry and even other industrial nations in developing a realistic and attainable lunar program that can be afforded. Keep in mind that NASA budgets have been cut in the past, and increased as well as other budgetary demands are reduced. We have good data from the Constellation project so far and that will be there when the money comes back to continue the program. Unfortunately the U.S. manned space program, for the better part of this current decade, is going to have to hitch a ride into low Earth orbit with other countries.