Another reason to get rid of Obama in 2012. The symbolism of the US retreat from space cannot be overestimated. This is a great day for Obama who believes the world will be a better place with the US brought down to the level of the rest of the world. The Russians won the space race, after all. The private sector may get a limited LEO program up, but Obama will probably cripple that as well. The Won's deep space program to visit an asteroid is just vaporware that means nothing and is cover for the diversion of what's left of NASA to more important things like weather/global climate change scam, Muslim outreach, and programs to send $$ to favored sources.
I am under the beliefs that Obama canned NASA because Moslems don’t want unbelievers traipsing on the lunar landscape, its the holy celestial object of Allahs love or something.
“The Russians won the space race, after all.”
Not really. The so-called “space race” was all about getting to the moon first. We won. But with our manned space program now dead and buried, we have truly become a nation of navel gazers.