Obama's plan for the Space Shuttle reminds me of his plan about Oil and his energy policy .... get rid of what works now in the favor of something else we don't have yet.
Agreed. There is no reason for a manned mission to any other celestial body until on of our probes, which are 1/1,000,000th the cost, tell us there is.
NASA has large overhead, I agree, costs a lot of money to hold on to. I'm responding to you claim that there is no reason to visit the moon or mars, that such missions are pointless.