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Nasa Details Shuttle's Retirement
schliz writes "Nasa has announced that it intends to officially retire the aging space shuttle fleet by 2010, four years before it has a replacement craft ready. The space shuttle fleet will make ten more flights, mainly to add modules to the International Space Station and carry out repairs and upgrades to the Hubble orbital telescope. The retirement will leave the US without orbital capacity for at least four years, until the Ares booster programme is complete. European and Russian launchers will service the space station in the meantime."
We'll outsource NASA, just like everything else.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
Don't forget pilots.
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
I'd rather be an astronaut than a lumberjack.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
I think I can say that Americas education system has never produced the quantity and quality of talent necessary for real innovation in space. The US has always relied on immigrants. Your victory in the space race was in part due to the fact that World War 2 drove the best rocket scientists out of Europe.
It got us out of WW2 too. Frankly, our German scientists were better than their German scientists...
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
I want to die quietly, in my sleep, like my Grandfather. Not screaming in terror, like his passengers.
-Peter