Astronauts Face Bleak Odds For Spaceflight

Abhishek writes "According to a Space.com report, Astronauts at NASA fear that they won't be able to fly until 2015 and that, for some, would be too late. The space shuttles that NASA have are almost at the end of their lifetimes and any shuttle can take years to be built. Though almost everybody is involved in some way or another in looking after a shuttle, only a lucky few actually gets the chance for a ride."

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Astronaught Meeting at NASA

[selectspec]

For many of you the goals of going into space has been a dream since childhood. Well, unfortunately, you're fired. Go get a real job. These Lego mindstorms make better astronaughts than your sorry asses. If your dream had been to be a media mogul, you might have earned enough doe to catch a flight on Branson's Virgin Rocket. But on NASA severance pay, you won't be able to afford the rent on your trailer home.

Re:Begs the question...

[ShieldW0lf]

I doubt that private enterprise would be stupid enough to build a shuttle. Burning fuel to carry all that weight to the edge of the atmosphere when you can fly it to the edge of the sky and launch it from there is pretty dumb...