Prez Announces Space Plan, Nerds Grumble

Obama announced his plan to overhaul NASA's mission, giving humans the ability to live off-planet for long periods, but Congress and others worry that the with the cancellation of the Constellation program, U.S. will be left behind other space-crazy countries, with no functioning delivery vehicle once the space shuttle program is retired. Read Neil Armstrong's angry letter to the President.

Model Airplanes at Union Station, Chicago, 1943

Photograph by Jack Delano on assignment for the Farm Security Administration, February 1943