First and last flight for new NASA program

NASA has begun shutting down its space shuttle program in order to gain more funding for their new manned mission program the Ares I. The first test flight of this new rocket took place on Wednesday. Although the mission lasted only a few minutes before the rocket came down in the Atlantic Ocean, this flight cost $445 million. The Bush Administration had high ambitions for NASA and our space program, but failed to provide the necessary funding. With a new team in the White House, the new question is how dedicated is President Barack Obama to our space program? Will he provide the proper funding? President Bush had hopped we would get back to the moon by 2020. If funding remains the same, NASA will have to drop that goal and switch to a new, cheaper rocket program.