Editing Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (section)

=== Program cancellation ===
In January 2004 President Bush announced the [[Vision for Space Exploration]], calling for the Space Shuttle fleet to complete the ISS and be retired by 2010, to be replaced by a newly developed [[Crew Exploration Vehicle]] for travel to the Moon and Mars.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/bush_vision.html|access-date=August 20, 2022|last=Wilson|first=Jim|publisher=NASA|title=President Bush offers new vision for NASA|date=January 14, 2004|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510062228/http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/bush_vision.html|archive-date=May 10, 2007}}</ref> In 2004, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe canceled a planned servicing of the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] and decided that future missions would all rendezvous with the ISS to ensure the safety of the crew.<ref name="nytimes_okeefe_hubble">{{cite news
  | last = Leary
  | first = Warren E.
  | title = NASA Chief Affirms Stand On Canceling Hubble Mission
  | work = The New York Times
  | date = January 29, 2004
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/us/nasa-chief-affirms-stand-on-canceling-hubble-mission.html
  | accessdate = August 22, 2022
| archive-date = August 22, 2022
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220822144530/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/us/nasa-chief-affirms-stand-on-canceling-hubble-mission.html
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> In 2006, his successor, [[Michael D. Griffin|Michael Griffin]], decided to have one more servicing mission to the telescope, [[STS-125]], which flew in May 2009.<ref name="science_hst_servicing">{{cite web
  | last = Lawler
  | first = Andrew
  | title = NASA to Fix Hubble Telescope
  | publisher = [[Science (journal)|Science]]
  | date = October 31, 2006
| url = https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-fix-hubble-telescope
  | accessdate = August 22, 2022
| archive-date = December 24, 2021
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211224090616/https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-fix-hubble-telescope
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref><ref name="sts-125">{{cite web
  | last = Kauderer
  | first = Amiko
  | title = STS-125 Mission Information
  | publisher = NASA
  | date = September 30, 2009
| url = https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts125/main/index.html
  | accessdate = August 22, 2022
| archive-date = June 15, 2009
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090615053932/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts125/main/index.html
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> The [[Space Shuttle retirement|retirement of the Space Shuttle]] was delayed until 2011,<ref name="wired_retirement">{{cite magazine
  | last = Grossman
  | first = Lisa
  | title = NASA Pushes Back End of Shuttle Era to 2011
  | magazine = Wired
  | date = July 1, 2010
| url = https://www.wired.com/2010/07/final-shuttles-delayed/
  | accessdate = August 22, 2022 }}</ref><ref name="sts-135">{{cite news
  | last = Howell
  | first = Elizabeth
  | title = The last voyage of NASA's space shuttle: Looking back at Atlantis' final mission 10 years later
  | work = Space
  | date = July 9, 2021
| url = https://www.space.com/space-shuttle-final-mission-atlantis-10-years
  | accessdate = August 22, 2022
| archive-date = April 9, 2022
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220409112228/https://www.space.com/space-shuttle-final-mission-atlantis-10-years
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> after which no further crewed spacecraft were launched from the United States until 2020 when [[SpaceX]]'s [[Crew Dragon Demo-2]] mission successfully carried NASA astronauts [[Doug Hurley]] and [[Robert Behnken]] to the ISS.<ref>{{Cite news|title=NASA And SpaceX Launch First Astronauts To Orbit From U.S. Since 2011|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/05/30/864514995/spacex-and-nasa-try-once-more-to-launch-astronauts|access-date=August 21, 2022|date=May 30, 2020|last1=Brumfiel|first1=Geoff|last2=Neuman|first2=Scott|work=NPR|language=en|archive-date=June 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605200850/https://www.npr.org/2020/05/30/864514995/spacex-and-nasa-try-once-more-to-launch-astronauts|url-status=live}}</ref>