The American Dark Age (2016-2020) An archived history of the worst President ever

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@Romalar had a response to that in the space thread that suggests the move is not totally on this administration:

What's happening in space (that's interesting)

In case anyone doesn’t know, this isn’t really a change of plans. The ISS was intended to run until 2020, and the Obama administration along with our international partners (and the US congress to a degree IIRC) agreed to extend it through 2024. We were actually getting a lot of pressure from the Russians to discontinue it sooner, though that may have been a bargaining tactic to get more money. The NASA budget simply cannot support manned lunar or Martian exploration programs while still paying…