Reactions to the proposed NASA budget

There have been a lot of news stories about the official release of the proposed 2011 NASA budget in Obama's proposed budget. The LA Times has a good summary. Also MSNBC's Alan Boyle has a good review of the proposed change to commercial providers for getting humans to Low Earth Orbit.

There are a lot of negative reactions to the proposals... oddly enough a lot of them are coming from towns and states that will be adversely affected by the shut-down of the Constellation launch vehicle program.

There are positive reactions too. The Planetary Society came out in favor of it. Also Rand Simberg at Transterrestrial Musings thinks its the right way to go. The new direction is also applauded by the Space Frontier Foundation. I still think that the devil is in the details so we'll see how those details work out.