Return to moon dead?

Louisiana's U.S. senators are concerned about reports that President Barack Obama is planning to provide the space agency with no money in his 2011 budget for a NASA rocket program to replace the space shuttle. A Florida newspaper has reported that Obama is dropping plans by the Bush administration to return astronauts to the moon through the Constellation Program, and wants NASA to focus on earth science projects like research on global warming. (Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 01/27/10) Gulf Coast note: NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and Stennis Space Center, Miss., are both involved in the Constellation Program.