High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vision for Space Exploration is the United States space policy announced on January 14, 2004 by then-U.S. President George W. Bush. It is seen as a response to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the state of human spaceflight at NASA, and a way to regain public enthusiasm for space exploration. One of the stated goals for the vision is to gain significant experience in operating away from Earth's environment, as the White House contended, to embody a "sustainable course of long-term exploration." The Ares boosters are a cost-effective approach entailing the Ares V's enormous, unprecedented cargo-carrying capacity transporting future space exploration resources to the Moon's weaker gravity field.