Back in the day, I used to love it when I looked up and knew that the Space Shuttle was there too...*Sigh*...Bloody Obama...Bloody NASA...

To be fair to NASA, there's not much they can do when Congress decide to slash their budget in favour of more tanks and jetplanes, because clearly killing people is much more important than expanding the boundaries of human knowledge.
Yeah...+1 with that...
And it's not like they're not building more stuff to go back to the Moon and Mars, but as I was, like, 7 when Columbia first went up...The Shuttle was a big thing to me when I was growing up...*Sigh*...I miss it...*Pouts and goes off to read book about the Shuttles*...