Oh and I forgot the average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 million per mission.

No Bush just sat an his *** and did NOTHING but put us in the middle of a senseless war that put us in the red!! If you have forgotten where in a recession because of a WAR!! WE DID NOT NEED TO GO INTO IRAQ!!!! It was all based on LIE that Bush told us and pushed it down our throat while we where still mourning 911!!!! Or have you forgotten that they NEVER found anything in Iraq!! We are where we are now because off it. When Clinton left office there was a surplus of 5 trillion dollars. When Bush left office we had $1.3 trillion deficit and most of it if not the whole thing was because of that dam war that just didn't cost us money but also soldiers. It took Bush two terms EIGHT YEARS to go threw 5 trillion and an extra trillion that almost got cost us a depression if not thanx to that same president you like complaining so much about. You want Obama to fix in one term what IDIOT Bush did in eight with the economic how it is all over the world, and to top it off you want to complain about spending while at the same time you complain about him cutting where WE DO NOT NEED IT!! WE do not need NASA SORRY!! Get your facts straight and don't just be color blindsided or party blindsides.

Are you for real?? I'm betting your the same people that complain about there being to much spending in Washington right? I for once don't care about if NASA is shutdown for the next ten years if that means that the spending is lower, if people don't have to worry about having a job and paying there bills and we as a nation could pay our debt. You should be more worried about people getting jobs and our debt getting lower instead of worrying about something so meaningless as NASA shutting down. Do you know how much it cost to send a shuttle to space? The Space Shuttle Endeavour, the orbiter built to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, cost approximately $1.7 billion. That's $1.7 BILLIONS dollars that could have gone some where else where its really needed. So who cares if the next few years NASA ain't around I don't. Good for Obama standing up and cutting things that we really don't need. Financing NASA right now is like a family that's barely making ends meet financing a new vacation home in Florida just because they want a vacation home. Don't matter what Obama does you're still ain't going to like what he do so who cares really. Your going to complain if he does it right or wrong... He Killed Osama Binladen and people come up with that hes not really dead and that Obama conspiring with the middle east to bring us to our knees. Really if he was so anty america wouldn't he have already done something about doing such thing instead of trying to help us get out of the rut that the Idiot that was before him left us in.

The numbers come straight from NASA'S web page.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html#1