Apollo astronauts dismay at axing of Nasa mission to return mankind to the Moon

By Richard Gray 830AM GMT thirteen March 2010

Former Nasa astronauts are perturbed at preference to terminate try to lapse to the Moon Photo AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Eugene Cernan, the last man to set feet on the Moon, and Jim Lovell, commander in chief of the luckless Apollo thirteen mission pronounced they were unhappy by the preference to terminate Nasa"s Constellation Moon programme.

Mr Lovell warned the preference would have "catastrophic consequences" for US space exploration.

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The span spoke to the BBC at a in isolation eventuality hold at the Royal Soceity in London on Friday evening. They were assimilated by the initial man on the moon Neil Armstrong.

Mr Lovell pronounced "Personally I think it will have inauspicious consequences in the capability to try space and the spin-offs we get from space technology.

"They haven"t thought by the consequences."

Mr Cernan, who was the last wanderer to lapse to the Apollo seventeen lunar procedure in 1972 creation him the last man to set feet on the Moon, added"I"m utterly unhappy that I"m still the last man on the Moon.

"I thought we"d have left at the behind of prolonged prior to now."

"I think America has a shortcoming to say the care in record and the dignified leadership... to find knowledge. Curiosity"s the hint of human existence."

Mr Obama cancelled Nasa"s Constellation programme, that was dictated to set up new rockets and a lander to put astronauts at the behind of on the lunar aspect by 2020, after saying it was costing as well most and was at the behind of schedule.

The programme had been authorized by former President George W Bush and was approaching to yield a stepping mill towards promulgation humans to Mars for the initial time.

Constellation has come underneath heated critique as a empty on Nasa"s resources and attempts to pattern a new space station complement that would reinstate the aging Space Shuttle have been raid with problems.

Nasa insists it still intends to send humans at the behind of to the Moon but the termination of the programme will set at the behind of a lunar mission by decades.

Mr Armstong, who was the initial man to set feet on the Moon in Jul 1969, refused to criticism about the termination of the project. The former wanderer is notoriously in isolation and frequency creates open apperances notwithstanding his fame.