NASA To Try To Resume Flights By Fall

underground alliance writes "According to BBC News, space shuttle flights could resume as early as this fall. The article says that 'Engineers have been put on standby to fix problems already raised by the investigating board, and devise a way of checking the exterior shuttle for defects while it is in orbit.' I think that this is a good move especially since ISS construction has been put on hold because without the space shuttle. The space shuttle is the only heavy freighter and the only means of putting a new ISS component in space."

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Re:The shuttle should be permanently grounded

[MisanthropicProggram]

Yes! Amen!! The Shuttle is 70's technology ( yes, there have been upgrades, but it's still basically a 70's creation.)

OUR(tax payer's) money should be spent on projects that will actually yield something valuable; such as, scientific discoveries ... hmmmm - or even for (gasp) commercial or military reasons. The space station....what a worthless pile of shit! Spend the money on probes at least! We'll learn something from them!!! Even if its something like - there's no life on Pluto or something - anything that we can learn something from. It seems to me that the current program is just to give business to to certain companies to keep these certain companies' congressmen happy so that these certain congressmen will keep funding NASA, so that they can keep buying from these certain companies. - Get it!

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