Many of the problems with the moonshot initiative began with how it was mis-launched in January at the president's State of the Union address. The moonshot analogy was dated and fell short of the complexity of what needs to be done, not necessarily to "cure" cancer, but to understand it better and make it a chronic, more manageable condition. Obama's opportunistic announcement of a new national effort seemed to take Biden — who was put in charge of mission control — by surprise.
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