[Colonel Flagg]

THe way I read it, the Constellation program was already waaaaaaay behind schedule, and while $9B has already been spent, it was predicted to go waaaaaaay over budget. Even Buzz Aldrin, one of the more vocal advocates of the space program, stated that this was the right move.

He's not cutting NASA's budget by much, if at all, just reprioritizing the money with funding going to more development rather than going into this single project.

I need to research the implications in more depth, but for right now, it seems that there is more to this story than just Obama cutting the moon program.