the end of the american space shuttle programme

The reason the American space shuttle programme has come to an end is because some coteries of atheistic twits at NASA prevailed over the more imaginative coteries of dreamers and adventurers, and sanctioned spending billions of dollars which should have been reserved for continuing the shuttle missions and developing new shuttles, on a giant telescope in space which specialises in sending back electronic interpretations of dust motes and microvave emissions which can then be photoshopped into spectacular multi hued irridescent images which the telescope's operators claim show the origins of star systems.
The photoshopped fantasies produced by the Hubble telescope are the sole reason the Americans now have no money to continue the one space exploration programme that gave mankind reason to hope for the conquest of space.
The other sole reason Nasa has run out of cash is the toy car which Nasa's in house atheistic twit cadres have insisted on sending on recurrent holidays to Mars.
I kid you not.
I am not so confident that the Russians and the Chinese will ever be as generous as the Americans have been in sharing the fruits of their space exploration with all humanity.