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Shuttle Atlantis Docks With International Space Station For the Last Time

Posted by timothy on from the since-we-were-in-the-neighborhood dept.

The BBC reports, with video, that the shuttle Atlantis "has docked with the International Space Station for the final time. The shuttle has brought a year's supply of food and around two tonnes of other supplies and spare parts to the ISS," where the shuttle will remain docked for at least seven days.

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  1. Re:Taking stock of the decades of the shuttle prog by jo42 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Taking stock of the 30 years of the shuttle program...how else these dollars could have been used...

    The cost of the shuttle program over 30 years ($196 billion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program) could have funded 0.163 wars in Iraq and Bumfuckistan ($1,218 billion - http://costofwar.com/en/). A much worthier cause, killing brown people, no?

    There is not much we have benefited.

    You must be a card carrying Republicantard, or at least, a bible humper.