The Space Craft of the 90s!

The 1990s where the only decade that NASA didn't develop a new space craft. Why is this? How could this have been changed? If NASA had developed something durring the 90s what would it be?
 

NomadicSky

Banned
What about those probes sent to Mars? They didn't have humans on board no but they were 90's space craft.
 

Thande

Donor
There was no budget after Clinton got in. Bush the First had this grand vision for a Mars mission, but then the economy downturned.

However, NASA did work on the X-33 VentureStar project in the late 90s before it ran overbudget and was cancelled: at that point they were still ideologically wedded to the idea of trying to build a SSTO spaceplane, even though that appears to be impossible with current technology.
 
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