[NC28203]

>>>"Perry charges that the Obama Administration “continues to lead federal agencies and programs astray, this time forcing NASA away from its original purpose of space exploration, and ignoring its groundbreaking past and enormous future potential.”

How much exploring of space was completed by these shuttles missions delivering supplies to the ISS? What groundbreaking advances have resulted from the shuttle program in the past tewnty years?

I would argue that in the past two decades the unmanned missions (Mars rovers, Cassini, Hubble) have done a considerably better job of exploring space and at a much lower cost in terms of dollars and lives.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....forcing NASA away from its original purpose of space exploration, and ignoring its groundbreaking past and enormous future potential.”

Perry is absolutely correct!

And that means people and machines beyond low Earth orbit -- on the moon -- using resources.

[El Gato]

What groundbreaking advances have resulted from the shuttle program in the past tewnty years?

Hubble. No Shuttle and Hubble would have been nearly blind, and would have long ago been shut down.