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NASA To Retire Atlantis by 2008

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Re:ISS in jeopardy? by tgd · · Score: 0, Troll

    Have you seen our current administrations approach to diplomacy?

    Perhaps the Bush Regime can do some real good! Kill the ISS and tell everyone to go screw or we'll bomb the crap out of them, too!

    A tiny ray of light out of this dismal, dark eight years.