claim: "if the space-shuttle program is terminated, russia and china will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space."
author: kay bailey hutchison
evidence_1: human spaceflight is space travel with a crew or passengers aboard the  spacecraft. spacecraft ... from the retirement of the us space shuttle in 2011 to  the first ... the ussr launched the first human in space, yuri gagarin, into a  single orbit in ... gemini's capability to maneuver in orbit, and the program was  terminated.
evidence_2: oct 28, 2011 ... we looked into a chain e-mail's claim that president barack obama is to ...  freedoms for one where 'we the people' are government controlled," says the ... is  the "first president to terminate america's ability to put a man in space. ... with  the end of the space shuttle program, it's correct that the united states ...
evidence_3: mar 16, 2010 ... “if the space shuttle programme is terminated, russia and china will be the only  nations in the world with the capability to launch humans into ...
evidence_4: several asian countries have space programs and are actively competing to  achieve scientific ... while the achievements of space programs run by the main  asian space ... has a space program with an independent human spaceflight  capability. ... just a few days after china said that it would send a human into  orbit in the ...
evidence_5: mar 3, 2010 ... "if the space shuttle program is terminated, russia and china will be the only  nations in the world with the capability to launch humans into ...