DaleB sent me a link to this analysis of President Obama’s new NASA budget, with the comment:

One the one hand, the move to evolve from the “…technologies we’ve developed in the ’50’s and “60’s” is good. But I cannot get over the feeling that this is a big step back or at least off to the side, with no real intention to move forward.

Opinions in the article are kind of all over the map, with predictions of “the death march for the future of U.S. human spaceflight” sallied against the belief that, “What this potentially gives us is a real space program, not a faux space program.” What do you think? Is this the end of the U.S. space program, or the beginning of an exciting new chapter?