The Space Shuttle and Its Replacement During its nearly one quarter century of service, the Space Shuttle has not only facilitated ground-breaking research which has given rise to countless technologies, but has also made great strides in making routine space flight, i.e. space tourism, a likely reality within the next few decades. But the two failures in the program's history, the Challenger and Columbia tragedies, have called the career of the Shuttle into question. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) came to the conclusion that because of the risks inherent in the original design of the Space Shuttle, because that design was based in many aspects on now-obsolete technologies, and because the Shuttle is now an aging system but still developmental in character, it is in the nation's interest to replace the Shuttle as soon as possible as the primary means for transporting humans to and from Earth orbit.1
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/newshuttle/overview.phpUpdated February 01, 2010
White House Confirms Course Change for NASAWASHINGTON -- The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is canceling NASA's current space shuttle replacement- and lunar exploration-plan and is prepared to fight any congressional effort to save it, the nation's top budget official said Jan. 31.
The president's budget, officially sent to Congress Monday morning, confirms what officials had stated during a teleconference with reporters one day before: White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag and White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer stated Obama's plan to kill NASA's Constellation program, a five-year-old effort to replace the aging space shuttle fleet with new rockets and spacecraft optimized to return astronauts to the Moon.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/01/white-house-confirms-course-change-nasa/Ok so this is the background to the point I would like to make.
So what is the truth? What is the US hiding?
Does it not seem odd to you that the shuttle is coming to an end, and the replacement has now been scrapped. However there is still plans to go to the space lab in the coming years.
There is no way that the US is going to rely on Russian technology to keep going up there.
I believe that the US has antigravity technology now and can travel into space with ease. Is this actually the replacement and will coicide with full disclosure?