Canceling NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder: The White House's Increasingly
Nearsighted "Vision" For Space Exploration

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1092

To quote:

According to President Bush, as he unveiled his Vision for Space Exploration: "We do not know where this journey will end, yet we know this: human beings are headed into the cosmos."

If there was one singular mission that embodied humanity casting its collective "vision" outward "into the cosmos" so as to look for places to "head" toward, it was the Terrestrial Planet Finder.

This is a bad decision. A really bad one. In making it, one has to question whether this White House really meant what it said 2 years ago when it raised everyone's expectations, invoking an expansion "into the cosmos" in so doing.

With every passing year this "vision" is becoming increasing nearsighted.

-- Planetary Society Charges Administration with Blurring its Vision for Space
Exploration

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18944

"The NASA Budget released today shortchanges space science in order to fund 17
projected space shuttle flights. Despite recent spectacular results from NASA's science programs, this budget puts the brakes on their growth within the agency.

"It seriously damages the hugely productive and successful robotic exploration of our solar system and beyond."