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The next retreat for the United States will be from the Final Frontier. CBS' Jeff Glor and NBC's Tom Costello (no link) both previewed the President's speech at the Kennedy Space Center at which he is expected to end NASA's mission to send humans into space. This was Costello's second day on the space story. On Tuesday, NBC News' space program veteran Jay Barbree claimed an exclusive for a first look at the open letter from Neil Armstrong and two other lunar astronauts in which they warned that the US would be "far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity" if NASA stopped putting people into space. Costello covered the Barbree scoop.
Now Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin finds himself "pitted against his peers," according to CBS' Glor, supporting Barack Obama's plan to leave human space transport to Russia's Soyuz, at least for the next five years. With thousands of space jobs likely to be lost in Florida, NBC's Costello expected the President to get "a rather chilly reception," when he announces his vision for NASA.
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