“Is he killing government manned space exploration or private manned space exploration or both?”
He’s trying to kill the return to moon program called Constellation.
Private entities have not orbited a single person yet. They are many years away from that. Obama favors this to take our astronauts to the space station instead of our astronauts riding Russian rockets as shuttle retires.
He offers nothing concrete to get beyond low earth orbit.
He wants to take five years to think about developing heavy lift rockets at NASA and explore “game changing” technology development.
Yes, he is killing NASA human spaceflight for all resonable purposes, and is set against returning to the moon.
He offers very long term promises of beyond low earth missions like visting an asteroid. And he mumbles about Mars. But of course there is nothing he proposes that will actually be built now.
Constellation was hardware being developed right now.
“Obama favors this to take our astronauts to the space station instead of our astronauts riding Russian rockets as shuttle retires.”
Makes you wonder who really won the Cold War.