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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. Taking stock of the decades of the shuttle program by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is my humble request:

    Taking stock of the 30 years of the shuttle program. I mean, I would like to know the benefits directly linked to the decades of this program.

    The stock should include among other metrics; how much tax payer dollars have been sunk into the program, how else these dollars could have been used, what benefits we've obtained as a nation, any missed opportunities and other benefits if any. Specifically, I would like to see tangible things that can directly be attributed to the presence of the shuttle program.

    Here's my take: There is not much we have benefited. I other words, the USA would not be that worse of if the shuttle program never existed.