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NASA Considering Early Retirement of Shuttle Program

Posted by michael on from the out-to-pasture dept.

Rei writes "While publicly assuring the public that it has no plans to do so, leaks have indicated that NASA has been quietly investigating plans to get rid of the Space Shuttle as soon as possible, and finish the International Space Station with disposable rockets, even as NASA works on achieving Return to Flight in 2005."

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  1. Get Rid Of it.! by Space_Soldier · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    They should have got rid of it as soon as it got off the assembly line. The Shuttle Programme was supposed to create an inexpensive, safe, and reusable rocket. Unfortunatly, they got ripped off. Not only that it is not safe, but it is also highly expensive. And if it explodes/implodes, it is not reusable.