America’s first hero astronaut is calling on the Obama administration to reverse course and keep NASA’s space shuttle program alive. John Glenn says retiring Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor later this year would ground U.S. manned space flight for at least a decade.
“Why terminate a perfectly good system that has been made more safe and reliable through many years of development? And the shuttles are not worn out. Far from it.” — Former senator and astronaut John Glenn
The new manned space program called Constellation is still years away. Glenn joins astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in asking President Obama to keep the shuttle program going.
