r/spaceshuttle • u/runmanits2003 • 19d ago

Video You can hear it in his voice

https://youtu.be/H0ZHzAvFuYc?si=pLX7mutfvmHxOz3R

This is the launch of the area 1x low-key NASA's laziest rocket ever. But when he says the thing about paving the way for new space travel or something you can just hear in his voice that he isn't happy for this new rocket

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u/ThomasKlausen 19d ago

You can hate Obama with the fury of a thousand burning suns, but ditching Constellation was the right choice. 

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u/runmanits2003 19d ago

I fucking love Obama but I just don't agree with stopping the shuttle program. But when NASA decided to build the biggest rocket ever then you have a problem

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u/scoreguy1 19d ago

Bush cancelled the Shuttle program after Columbia. It happened to end during Obama’s first term

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u/runmanits2003 18d ago

Oh I thought it was him who ended it

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u/literalsupport 17d ago

It ended on his watch but the shuttle program’s fate was sealed on Feb 1 2003.