[Oliviaforever]

“At the moment, even getting off the ground would be progress: since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has been left without any domestic capability to launch American astronauts into space; instead it has been purchasing rides for them aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft at high cost. “

Another example of the decline of America under Obama.

[Olog-hai]

And thanks to the true “reset”, Russian officials have been snarking that US astronauts need to use a “trampoline” to get into space.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

While I don't dispute our space program has declined under Obola, the Space Shuttle was "formally scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010 in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration." (Wikipedia). We've been asleep at the switch for a decade now.

[DoughtyOne]

While I tacitly agree, who truly deserves the blame for us not having a space vehicle right now?

You could say Bill Clinton and most certainly George Bush.

Planning for something to have been ready to replace the Space Shuttle should have been planned and going strong by the end of the Bush administration.

Obama didn’t screw us on this one. Granted he dragged his feet too, but if there was every a thing to blame Bush for, perhaps Bill Clinton too, this was it.

Remember, Kennedy’s big push to the moon took place on May 25, 1961. It took eight years and two months for us to land on the moon.

Stay out of the Bushes! LOL