With president-elect Barack Obama poised to take the oath of office in just two weeks, the future of NASA's human spaceflight program will soon take shape. Obama has pledged to reduce the five-year gap between the retirement of the current shuttle program and the first launch of the shuttle's replacement. "The exact course the new president charts will be the biggest space news story in 2009," says Florida Today (Newspaper in Melbourne, FL), which goes on to list nine more stories to watch in the upcoming year.
Let us hope that that the new President-elect will investigate all areas and aspects of NASA's programs. Number one should be the safety of the astronauts and the spacecrafts that they pilot. Number two should be a new fuel that will not emit the emence heat and flames that continue to destroy the ozone layer. Number three should be a consolidation of all forty six space programs throughout the world to mandate an order to reduce the number of space flights. Number four should be that the forty six countries deplore more satellites on fewer launches so as not to enlarge the areas of depleated ozone already damaged and possibly subside the current size of the ozone layer.
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