NASA To Retire Atlantis by 2008

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 20, 2006 @03:02AM from the end-of-the-line dept.

SirBruce writes "As reported by Space.com, Spaceflight Now, and elsewhere, NASA is now planning to retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis by 2008, after just 5 more flghts. By doing so, they would avoid a costly and time consuming scheduled overhaul, and could still fly the remaining 12 missions (17 total) with Discovery and Endeavour, which are just now completing their ODMPs (orbiter maintenance down period). Atlantis would be kept for spare parts to keep Discovery and Endeavour flying until the shuttle program is shut down in 2010."

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Re:But what about the space program's future? by belg4mit · 2006-02-20 04:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Damn that's short-sighted. Crap all over our nest and the solution is to bring more stuff in to make more crap?
To mix metaphors, the reason to get out of this hole is not to keep all of our eggs in one basket.

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Re:ODMP by HexRei · 2006-02-20 08:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

downmodders, go fuck yourselves. Downmodded for pointing out an error in the article? all hail the editor-gods of slashdot who can do no wrong (in the eyes of sycophant /. moderators)