George W. Bush Announces Vision for Space Exploration, и говорит о возвращении на луну January 14, 2004

On January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration. This was the pivotal speech in which he said the Space Shuttle would be retired once the International Space Station was completed, and that the United States would begin work on a new exploration program that came to be known as Constellation. Two weeks later, NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe appeared before the Senate Science Committee to detail the proposal. He showed that the ISS would be defunded in FY 201