PRESIDENT OF America, Barrack Obama in the New American Budget Proposal has called to cancel the country’s moon mission and focus instead on radically new space technologies.

President Obama’s 2010 budget proposal for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) asks for 18 billion dollar over five years for fueling spacecraft in orbit, new types of engines to accelerate spacecraft through space and robotic factories that could churn soil on the moon. Plans for a new mission to leave earth’s orbit will probably not be spelled out for a few years and the budget proposal makes it clear that any future exploration programme will be an international collaboration, not an American one, more like the International Space Station than Apollo.

To pay for the new technology development, the budget calls for a complete stop in NASA’s Constellation programme, the rockets and spacecraft that NASA has been working on for the past four years to replace the space shuttles. The proposal would officially end aspirations to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 — President Bush’s 'vision for space exploration'

In place of the nmoon mission, Barrack Obama’s vision offers, at least initially, nothing in terms of human exploration of the solar system. What the administration calls a bold new initiative does not spell out a next destination or timetable for getting there.

If implemented, the NASA a few years from now would be fundamentally different from the NASA today.