Remember that permanent moonbase that NASA has been pushing for the past few years????

OOPS!! just kidding!

After four years of bold talk about focusing its return-to-the-Moon programme on a permanent international outpost at the Moon’s southern polar Shackleton crater, NASA now suggests its plans may stop at less ambitions Apollo-style sorties.

Seriously, it appears that NASA looks at its long term goals with the same seriousness as your average LOLKat on a catnip binge.

As I’ve said before, these are people who let Star Trek inform their decisions way too much.