NASA does? The U.S. is going through hard financial times right now so the space program is temporarily on hold,but missions to the moon and Mars are being planned at NASA. Space exploration has been proven too valuable to be discarded,and now that other countries beside the U.S. and Russia are getting into the act it will definitely not be abandoned. We're in space right now. There are people on the Space Station. NASA says this: "This is the beginning of a new era in space exploration where we will build the capabilities to send humans deeper into space than ever before." "Or is President Obama going to shut down our whole space program" I love how Obama gets the blame for the cuts imposed by the Republican regime in Congress. The NASA budget is the same as last year. It's frozen at last year's level for the next 5 years. Obama had planned a steady increase, but Congress put a halt to that. Still, keeping exactly the same budget is hardly "shutting down the whole space program". The U.S isn't going to let anyone else lead in space research, I don't know if anything like the space shuttle program will be happening again but we are sending out new telescopes to take over Hubble's job.