Please Support NASA's Constellation Program

President Obama's proposed budget for the forthcoming fiscal year is an avowed mandate to terminate NASA's Project Constellation. If adopted by Congress, it would mean the end of U.S. manned exploration of the Moon and the rest of our Solar System for the foreseeable future. Our sustained and productive efforts toward the development and demonstrated success of the Ares rocket and all that has supported it, which represent an investment of billions of dollars, will have been for naught.

Congressman Pete Olson represents NASA’s Johnson Space Center. According to news reports, he has called the elimination of Constellation “a crippling blow to American’s human space flight program. It has taken over 50 years to build and develop America’s ascension to its rightful place as the dominant player in human space flight."

“That dominance is apparently no longer desired.”

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala) is the ranking member of the Science Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees NASA’s budget. He stated that this budget “begins the death march for the future of U.S. human space flight.”

Your passion is desperately needed. Please call your Congressman or Senator and, in firm but polite terms, state your strong support of the future of manned spaceflight and your opposition to President Obama's cancellation of Project Constellation. In a world where Near-Earth Objects may imperil mankind, development of this kind of technology may be essential to ensure our shared future on Earth.

Thank you.