NASA (again)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7149543.ece

I don't care where you are on the spectrum of government spending v. scientific research.  This is sad, sad news. Effectively, NASA has crippled research into our next best living space option for the next few decades putting us even more behind collectively as living beings and as a country, if there is even a space race still going on.