Slashdot has an excerpt from The Guardian revising their timeline for going to the moon.

“The Guardian is reporting that NASA is quietly revising its internal estimates of a 2018 launch for its Ares V rocket. Although publicly the date given for the launch was 2020, the internal launch date was set for 2018. The shift in dates seems to be linked to ‘growing budget woes,’ and ‘engineers say that means the public 2020 date to send humans back to the moon is in deepening trouble.’ NASA administrator Mike Griffin blamed the White House, and the previous Bush administration, saying funding for Ares V and other projects fell from $4bn through 2015 to just $500m. ‘This was to be allocated to early work on the Ares V heavy-lifter, and the Altair lunar lander. With only a half-billion dollars now available, this work cannot be done.’”

I think it is amazing how much this stuff costs when you have to figure out how to do something from scratch. And you will note this story is not called “returns to the moon.” Now that I think about it, why are we even going to the moon? If your going to go anywhere, at least make it Mars. It can at least support life, I saw a documentary all about it. You just melt the ice, and the best part, they have women with like three or four breasts!