Now that US manned spaceflight is as dead as disco,what will kids dream about becoming instead of Astronauts?

Obama hopes they dream about becoming bureaucrats, with ever increasing power and authority

You do realize that it was Bush that ended the Shuttle program - and that Obama cut the budget because of the mess Bush left behind?

Sorry to politicize it but you started it. There are other manned programs in the works, but they're going to take time to get off the ground. By the time that kids in grade school are old enough to apply to the space program, there will be a new launch system ready.

So.. You are just gunna stick with the half of the story that agrees with your personal political philosophy huh? Not going to actually check to see if NASA is planning on using the smartest minds ever to walk to the Earth on something better than a 30 year old obsolete glider?

Meet Orion MPCV: The spacecraft that will bring us to Mars.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/05/24/35...

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/Features/orion_...

http://www.spacenews.com/civil/110524-nasa-lockhee...

Okay.. So now that you know what you have been told and are repeating is just plain false.. what's the plan? Repeat it until it becomes true? Cool. See you on Mars baybay.

Just do a little time for larceny, and you can be a genuine rap star.

Astronauts for one of the three US civilian space programs that have sprouted up since Obama pushed for privatization.

They will dream of becoming Chinese.

given the washington elites desire to tax away all our corporations and their all out war against the integrity of the dollar, i would say wal-mart greeter is about all they have left.

They dream of becoming crack heads.

Worthless welfare cheats. Or liars like our president.

getting a fat welfare check!!!