I remember watching the very first space shuttle launch in England with our group of exchange students. They were very upset that the "bloody yanks" were going to pull a major space undertaking like this off.

At the time it was fun to see how worked up they were but I'm glad this big waste of money is finally coming to an end. The cost of putting humans in space (and where the shuttle goes isn't really what I consider "space") is just too high.