Obama has essentially cancelled the American manned space program.After the next few Space Shuttle missions the US will not have capability to put man into space, and will not have a replacement system on the drawing board. He wants NASA to focus on important stuff like proving that the AGW hypothesis is valid. It appears that America is now ceding space to Russia, China, and India. This will degrade our military capability. That, of course, is another goal of the Obama Administration.