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:So what's next? by CrazyTalk · 2006-02-20 04:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Mod parent down as troll!
Re:So what will they use to launch kids into space by dr_dank · 2006-02-20 06:11 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Space Camp?

Thats the one. My favorite mixed-up-robot-launching-teenagers-into-space movie ever!

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Re:So what's next? by manno · 2006-02-20 06:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why mod me down as troll? It was an honest question.