OBAMA KILLS MANNED SPACE FLIGHT!

by Sky_Pilot , Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:19

Obama has decided to cancel the successor to the space shuttle, leaving NASA astronauts with no way to get into space other than renting seats on someone elses rocket.

From Space.com:

CAPE CANAVERAL — President Barack Obama will ask Congress to extend International Space Station operations through at least 2020 but abandon NASA's current plans to return U.S. astronauts to the moon, administration and NASA officials said Wednesday...

"My biggest fear is that this amounts to a slow death of our nation's human spaceflight program, a retreat from America's decades of leadership in space, ending the economic advantages that our space program has brought to the U.S. and ceding space to the Russians, Chinese and others," said U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge.

More at: http://www.space.com/news/obama-nasa-budget-moon-ft-100128.html