Learning that the American Aerospace Bureau was about to strike a 10 billion US Dollar space collaboration with New Yuan Aeronautics, NACA was beside itself, and the Rusia Space Agency too.
NACA sent an overnight protest to America, "Camel, don't you love me anymore? How did New Yuan seduce you, I can play the same tricks!
Ever since Russia fell, the Congress bigwigs in America were overjoyed, hacking away at all sorts of military and space budgets, bringing disaster to a whole host of aerospace contractors and NACA.
For 91 years, America had been unmatched internationally, looking down on everybody else as little brothers; no one in the world could beat it when all combined, brimming with overconfidence.
I'm already so awesome, why spend so much money showing off? Why not save it for wining and dining?
Space shuttles? Wasted 200 billion US Dollars for just a few of them, what's the point? Retire them, let the kids use them as a museum;