The "New" NASA under obama

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Reagan...

The Strategic Defense Initiative was about defense more than about pushing out to new frontiers. I do recall Reagan proposed Space Station Freedom. Although announced in the 1984 State of the Union Address, Freedom was never constructed or completed as originally designed, and after years of cutbacks and revisions, the remnants of the project were folded into the International Space Station. Which still leaves us in Low Earth Orbit.

Ever since Apollo it feels like American space policy has been more about aimlessly making work than having a real long term goal.