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Originally posted by BeBro
China has manned spacecraft too
Doesn't the NASA get some new stuff when the shuttles are our of service???
China has manned spacecraft too
Doesn't the NASA get some new stuff when the shuttles are our of service???
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There is a new one but it has been delayed by budget cuts. It will be 5-6 years before it is ready.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate. -
Can't they the use the super duper shuttles form ArmageddonSpace is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Retire the Shuttle as soon as possible. What more needs to be said about a launch system that costs over $1 billion per launch (with all costs fully absorbed)?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Saturn VI?Originally posted by Heraclitus
Nope they have to wait till 2015 or something like that until they manage to replicate the Apollo technology they used 40 years ago.
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We should keep one in operation atleast.
It can go up, grab something, and bring it back.Retire the Shuttle as soon as possible. What more needs to be said about a launch system that costs over $1 billion per launch (with all costs fully absorbed)?Comment
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What did you have in mind?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Re: Should the US not retire the shuttles?
FixedOriginally posted by Lancer
With the U.S. going cold war on the Russians . . .Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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New gay name, same old story.Long time member @ Apolyton
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what does homosexuality have to do with it? What aren't you telling us, Lance?Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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From Wikipedia
The Shuttle program is scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010. The Shuttle's planned successor is Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft. NASA plans to launch 8 to 10 more shuttle missions before the program ceases.[5]
U.S. Representative Dave Weldon has introduced H.R. 4837, known as the SPACE Act.[6] This legislation would keep the Space Shuttle flying past 2010 at a reduced rate until the Orion spacecraft is ready to replace it. It would allow both the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer as well as the completed-but-unused Centrifuge Accommodations Module to be launched to the ISS, which the current schedule does not allow. The bill is currently in committee.[7]Comment
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There ya go, thanks Zkrib. See, the US gov does listen.
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The Weldon bill doesn't have much chance of actually passing. The funding wedge for Constellation takes all of the money dedicated nowadays to Shuttle. By not retiring the Shuttle, the congress would delay flight of Constellation.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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certainly nothing that would break any treatyOriginally posted by DanS
What did you have in mind?
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The last shuttle mission should be a suicide crash against the Kaaba shrine in Mecca. Also, the shuttle should be loaded with bibles.Comment
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We need to be able to get to the space station, yes? Iirc, last go round of the cold war there wasn't alot of cooperation in space. So, how do we get there?Long time member @ Apolyton
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