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I for one, am sad that our government is squatting this program with NO replacement even on the table. We can afford to bail out Big Business, fund two decade long wars, and give free healthcare and aid to Illegal Aliens, but can't drop the extra $$$ to overhaul Nasa (A Massive Source Of American Pride) into something other then a muslim outreach program??

Sad days ahead America.

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It's Ok, though. The Soviets still have their rockets. We'll be paying them for rides to the station.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1951154.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1951154.page GMT Shuttle Discovery Getting Set For It's Last Trip
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I remember being a young nerd excited for the Columbia's first launch. But the gorgon of 2010 says you don't keep something that expensive and ill-conceived around simply because it's "cool." ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952499.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952499.page GMT Shuttle Discovery Getting Set For It's Last Trip http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952516.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952516.page GMT Shuttle Discovery Getting Set For It's Last Trip
kronk wrote:I don't mind the shuttle retiring. I mind it retiring without a functioning alternative.



Yup, exactly. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952521.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952521.page GMT Shuttle Discovery Getting Set For It's Last Trip http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952570.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952570.page GMT Shuttle Discovery Getting Set For It's Last Trip
kronk wrote:I don't mind the shuttle retiring. I mind it retiring without a functioning alternative.


Fully Agree.

Also, wasn't the current administration talking about the possibility of sending people back to the moon here not long ago? (Could be wrong on this one though)

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I'll stay hopeful.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952919.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1952919.page GMT Shuttle Discovery Getting Set For It's Last Trip http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1956880.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1956880.page GMT Shuttle Discovery Getting Set For It's Last Trip
You can just as easily blame NASA as they jealously guarded their baby with one of the worst cases of "not invented here," I've ever seen. You could also blame the Augustino commission that had dozens of viable proposals presented to it yet still chose to protect their old buddies baby. Those two groups kept Constellation married to a rocket that was never going to live up to its promises before it ever got off the pad.

Not to absolve the Presidents of blame. After all we're talking about how many trillions in bailout and stimulus money and you can't find ten billion for NASA?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1957800.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1957800.page GMT Shuttle Discovery Getting Set For It's Last Trip UK and turn us into Space Land - a nation dedicated to shooting things up into the air and beyond, I would be cool with that ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1957808.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/318371/1957808.page GMT