The space program, which had been mothballed after the 2008 election, received an unexpected shot in the arm from the government shutdown with an emergency mission to the moon.
After his victory, Obama had shut down planned missions to the moon and mars, the space shuttle and the replacement space vehicle for it. But a recent bill by two Congressional Black Caucus members to establish a National Park on the lunar landing site created an urgent need to immediately shut down the Apollo Lunar Landing National Historic Park before anyone could actually visit it.
“The government is shut down. All 17 percent of it,” said National Park Service spokeswoman Sequoia Jackson. “We’ve barricaded national monuments and the ocean. We evicted restaurants and homeowners living on Federal land. We don’t know how else to get the message across that the government is shut down and there is no money except by launching an emergency 2 trillion dollar mission to plant barricades on the moon.”
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