[Dacula]

Q: Who decided to stop flying shuttles?

A: President George W. Bush made the decision in 2004. He wanted astronauts to go back to the moon, and eventually to Mars. For NASA to afford to build a new spaceship to reach those goals, it had to stop spending about $4 billion a year on the shuttle program.

https://phys.org/news/2011-05-space-shuttle-fleet.html

[hoagy62]

Man, I haven’t been this excited since the last Shuttle launch.

[Political Junkie Too]

They were running out of spare parts for the shuttles. In the end, they were raiding landfills for old electronics because the systems in the shuttle were so old.

-PJ

[Chgogal]

NASA under Bush2
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/163092main_constellation_program_overview.pdf

NASA under Obama
https://capitalresearch.org/article/nasa/

NASA, Obama and Islam
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-new-mission-for-nasa-reach-out-to-muslim-world