Post by Nyobee McCall on Feb 15, 2010 23:37:01 GMT -5
The political cartoon shows an image of the moon in space with a white flag embedded into the surface. The flag says in red words “BEEN THERE, DONE THAT”. Also, in the cartoon Part of the Earth is visible in the background, and the stars are also show. The cartoon also has the words “Obama Wisely Kills NASA’S Costly Moon Funding:” in white letters. The cartoonist is showing that“...space travel would be left for private companies while NASA focuses on science and technological advances” instead of planning another trip to the moon. Under Obama leadrship the NASA buget was cut to 19 millloin dollars, which was the cause of the cancled mission in 2020. The political cartoonist shifted the iamge from a great view of accomplish to a iamge of disappointment to do a redo .
Even though the exploration of the moon can be a benefit to knowledge, President Obama deems it necessary to cut funding towards the NASA program. The money will go toward other places that need additional money to provide better services. The cut back should not be seen as a destroyer of exploration but a redirection of founds for better purposes. The NASA program will instead focus more on “robotic exploration, the international space station, and research.”
