Final Space Shuttle Mission
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- BenWeeks0
Let's just let a corrupt country build a giant "laser" on the moon.
- fooler0
looks like the launch was just postponed
- ghandolf0
Time-lapse of space shuttle Discovery rollover to the VAB for STS-133
STS-133 Shuttle Discovery vertical VAB Time-lapse
Final Landing of STS-133 Discovery
365 Career Total Mission/Days in Space
- bokse0
cool, you don´t want to miss this.
- SteveJobs0
final?
- PonyBoy0
Yep... final — this is it. :(
I barely remember the first launch... *tears
- Dodecahedron0
What do they have to replace it?
- nothingbetelgeuse
- I was hoping anti-gravity mobilesDodecahedron
- The Russians are the current 'replacement' vehicles.ghandolf
- tymeframe0
Just for Discovery right? The other two shuttles will still be used.
- really? i thought that was it....betelgeuse
- this is the very last of all themPonyBoy
- SteveJobs0
*shakes fist at moon* never again!!
- Josev0
Wow, I'm kinda bummed.
I remember painting a mural/super graphic of the Shuttle taking off on a wall in my High School. I was a sophomore and it was to commemorate the first flight.
- bokse0
"What do they have to replace it?"
russian, european and japanese vehicles will guarantee c4rgo-deliveries to ISS. russians with their old ships, euros and japanese have cool new automated spaceships (currently not manned). the second european ATV is currently docked at or on its way to ISS i think.
personnel transfer will be done exclusively by russians.
- epic_rim0
Obama's budget, according to a background briefing by an administration official on Sunday, will call for spending $6 billion over five years to develop a commercial spacecraft that could taxi astronauts into low Earth orbit. Going commercial with a human crew would represent a dramatic change in the way NASA does business. Instead of NASA owning the spacecraft and overseeing every nut and bolt of its design and construction, a private company would design and build the spacecraft with NASA looking over its shoulder.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
I see, private take over.
- that's how it should be, seeing as how the government can't seem to do anything efficiently or cheapmonospaced
- bokse0
there´s really no point in this kind of re-usable orbiter system, as cool as it was > NASA shuttle program inherently flawed.