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Next Generation Space Shuttles

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the boldly-going dept.

zymano writes "Popular Science has an article about the next generation space shuttles. If you're wondering about what happened to all those cool ideas for a new shuttle and what happened to them then this story will explain it. Mentions the politics, design, costs and time for a new shuttle." There's some neat images of mockups as well.

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first posts are for teh fagotzzz kthx bai

  2. I didn't rtfa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok so Monday night I'm in a bar.

    Some fuckin weirdo is talking to me. He is trying to recruit me as a programmer. He wants me to guide his spaceship to mars. He wants to beat NASA to mars. He doesn't want to work with NASA because of his ego. God has told him how to get to mars. He doesn't hold a degree and dropped out of school in tenth grade, but that's just because he has four sons. He has mathematical proof that God exists. God directly told him how to get to mars. He has the plans all in his head. He is an engineer. He says Microsoft is open source. He says I am a communist. Someday he is going to find his programmer.

    He rambled something about a zero diameter circle. As my boss said, "isn't that just a fucking dot?"

    I got up and said "we were just leaving" when Dana says "we didn't pay our tab yet." Dammit. Awkward.

    1. Re:I didn't rtfa by Billy+the+Mountain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      So what was he paying? Did he need any Java programmers?

      BTM

      --
      That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
  3. I like the dig at slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

  4. Re:Simple explanation why there is no new shuttle. by /dev/trash · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Islam is a religion, how can it be the next superpower?

  5. Re:The entire 5 page article: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That was actually kind of witty if you think about it.

  6. Re:The space program... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, I'd do that, but unfortunately, I can't afford it because I DON"T HAVE A JOB. STOP FUCKING AROUND AND FIX THE ECONOMY! (and "fucking around" includes invading third world countries. Christ, the next time you start a war using WMDs as a pretext, at least choose a country that has them.)

  7. Re:Hey hey, by spoonist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    THIS is their space anti-piracy task force.

  8. Re:Hey hey, by vidnet · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Couldn't they just climb the cable to the cable TV?

  9. one way of financing the space program by g4dget · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That would be one way of financing the space program: set things up so that the only way the RIAA could stop P2P file sharing is by sending manned spacecraft or very intelligent probes to Mars.

    So, what about it? Let's put a solar-powered P2P node on Mars with 100G worth of MP3s and some simple defensive capabilities. Then, let's see how long it will take th RIAA to launch a 20 man crew to Mars to track down and kill the thing.