Former Apollo Astronaut Harrison Schmitt: Cancelling the Moon Program is Unconstitutional

February 13, 2010 (LPAC)—Echoing the determination by Lyndon LaRouche that President Obama's proposal to cancel NASA's lunar exploration program is an impeachable offense, former Apollo astronaut, and former Senator, Harrison Schmitt says in a statement released after the budget was made public, "Expenditures of taxpayer provided funds on space related activities find constitutional justification in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, that gives Congress broad power to 'promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts.'" In addition, he states, "The article 1 power and obligation to 'provide for the Common Defense,' relates directly to the geopolitical importance of space exploration at this frontier of human endeavor.

"The repeated hypocrisy of this President continues to astound. His campaign promises endorsed what he now proposes to cancel. His July celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing now turns out to be just a photo op with the Apollo 11 crew. With one wave of a budget wand, the Congress, the NASA family, and the American people were asked to throw their sacrifices and achievements in space on the ash heap of history.

"How the mighty have fallen," he observes.

What should then be the focus of our national space policy? "Some propose that we concentrate on Mars. Without the experience of returning to the Moon, however, we will not have the engineering, operational, or physiological insight for many decades, to either fly to Mars or land there."

Schmitt describes the painful process by a cowardly Congress and worse Administrations which led to this final destruction, but shortsightedly advises that the 2010 elections "offer the way to get back on the right track." In fact, by then it will be too late.

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