Four More Years For Obama

President Barack Obama was elected to a second term in the White House yesterday.  America is thus in an interesting historical period-- only once before has the nation had three consecutive two-term presidencies.  That was with the three Virginians-- Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.

This time, we'll have Clinton, who helped establish ISS, among other things, George W. Bush, who set the space shuttles on the road to retirement and established the Constellation program to return U. S. astronauts to the Moon, and Obama, who canceled Constellation in favor of an approach to develop the technological base and infrastructure necessary to support a future, sustained program of deep space manned exploration.  With Mr. Obama's re-election, it's presumably safe to assume NASA's programs are set for the next four years.