Citizens Against Government Waste Endorses Obama Plan

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), a non-profit group whose name explains its mission, endorses President Obama’s plan to terminate the Constellation program and replace it with a human space flight program that relies on the private sector to take astronauts to and from space and investment in new technologies to lower the cost of space travel.

In a press release accompanying a report released Tuesday, CAGW President Tom Schatz called Constellation “a symbol of the ‘old NASA'” and a program that is “morphing into another ill-conceived government program,” a “black hole” into which the government should not keep sinking funds. He considers the Obama plan a “step in the right direction” and says Congress should not interfere. CAGW’s full report is available on its website.