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In reply to the discussion: Its a bit ironic to make fun of failed missile tests when we don't even have a space shuttle [View all]joshcryer
(62,270 posts)...that we were "giving up manned flight" when he decided to shut down Bush's crappy Constellation program (that would've scuttled the ISS in 2015, no I am not kidding), which gutted science funding to no end. Obama's budget actually increased science funding but Congress overrode him to build a big rocket called the Space Launch System which will cost billions and hurt NASA space science. Hopefully we get a proper congress to end it sooner rather than later because it will never be built (it will need to survive two different administrations which isn't happening, by the late 20 teens when the thing still hasn't launched there will be pressure to "do something else." Heck, by then SpaceX will have orbited the moon if not sent something to Mars!).