Ken Larson made a presentation on NASA’s future at the Kennedy Space Center, on Monday. Ken Larson shared that the future looked good. His job is to motivate the coming generation as much as he was inspired by his father, who was a reporter who made friends with the first astronauts, as well as by his grandmother.

The space shuttles are scheduled to retire this year. Instead of exchanging them with new rockets for a return to the moon, President Obama wants NASA to focus on the long-term challenge of reaching deep space.

The United States will not send its own astronauts through the stratosphere, but will hitch rides with the Russians until around 2016.

The rocket program, Project Constellation will be saved by senators, including Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, who argues that it is essential for space, security and the economy. Mr. Larson’s script says, “We can’t confirm exactly where humankind’s next steps in space are going to take us”.

Exploration Space welcomed its first guests in December. The new Obama plan surfaced, two months later, which forced changes Mr. Larson’s script.