BARACK OBAMA: "By twenty twenty-five, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space. [Applause] So we’ll start -- we’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. [Applause] By the mid-twenty thirties, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it. [Applause]"
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: The final launch of Atlantis was the one hundred thirty-fifth shuttle launch since nineteen eighty-one. Two shuttles were lost, killing fourteen crew members.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Challenger exploded shortly after launch. Columbia broke apart just minutes before it was supposed to land.
Plans call for Atlantis to spend its retirement at the privately operated Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Endeavour and Discovery will go to museums. So will the Enterprise, a test shuttle that never flew in space. But for now -- and in this economy -- not much else appears settled about the future of the American space program.
In two thousand seven China launched its first moon orbiter. India followed the next year with its own scientific mission.
China may try to send a crew of "taikonauts" to the moon by twenty twenty-five. A taikonaut orbited Earth on a Chinese-built rocket in two thousand three. China became the third country after the United States and the Soviet Union to use its own launch vehicle to send a person into space.
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