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NASA Hopes Discovery's Move Is Not The Last
An anonymous reader wrote to mention the movement of the space shuttle Discovery. The upcoming mission, if it launches, is crucial to the future of American manned space flight. From the Washington Post article: "A successful flight will allow NASA to resume construction of the half-built International Space Station and possibly extend the life of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope, which has allowed humans to peer into far galaxies. But with the shuttle fleet due to retire in 2010, any serious problems during July's mission likely would bring a premature end to the shuttle program and disrupt NASA's plans to keep its skilled work force intact while a replacement spacecraft is being developed."
We go through this every time with you shuttle fan-boys:
m issions/list_main.html
What is this hey-dey you speak of where we were launching shuttles to ths ISS every month:
2002: 5 missions, 4 to ISS
2001: 6 missions, all to ISS
2000: 5 missions, 4 to ISS
NEVER have we sent a mission a month (for more than thre months) to the ISS.
Look it up for yourself.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttle