Um. The US manned exploration programme was already going to have to start over. GWB set out the plan for this in 2004. In return for setting aside the shuttles (which are aging and overpriced for their capabilities) he decided to concentrate the money that would have been spent on propping them up on developing a new manned system focussed on returning men to the moon. The loss of the space shuttles predates Obama.
What Obama has done is put the development of the new delivery system on hold while the US economy settles down a bit before working on a launch system that will take men to Mars.
Half of the News articles listed in the last few days on the site that you posted a link to here give this information.
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04-13-2010, 12:36 AM
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