Re: Seven years from this July it will have been half a century since NASA first landed men on the Moon.
I've been in this business for over thirty years, and worked with a lot of people both inside and outside NASA.
That statement isn't "ideology." That's an unpleasant fact, and a lot of people working for NASA aren't any happier about it than I am.
You'd think the Ares/Orion/SLS ("Senate Launch System) fiascos would have driven the point home by now.