Whitehouse refuses NASA request to fix shuttle.
It's sad that we are easily willing to spend hundreds of billions to fight wars, and can't spare a paltry 10 billion to make the shuttle safer in it declining years, and build it's replacement to assure human access to space. It seems we are more interested in destroying things than building things. It costs more each year to run the Whitehouse than we spend on space.
Whit house declines budget boost for shuttle