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Bush made the decision on the STS but also proposed Orion and Constellation to keep us in the game. Obama has trashed it all and replaced it with Muslim Outreach. Somehow, it doesn't seem quite the same.

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Bush made the decision on the STS but also proposed Orion and Constellation to keep us in the game.

It's 2010. The first Orion flight was optimistically scheduled for 2015 and the moon landing for 2019. Just what were we supposed to do with these people in the 5 year, more likely 10 year, period between the end of the shuttle and the launch of Orion? Their jobs were gone regardless.