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US shuttle blasts off on final trip

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It is so disappointing that they are axing what is effectively our entire space program. It might have been okay for them to dissolve the shuttle program if they had another program to replace it with so they don't. However the good news is that we will be sending Americans to Mars by at least 2030, assuming they don't push the date back like they do every few years.

US space shuttle Endeavour will launch for one last time as NASA space shuttle programme's next-to-last mission. The launch nears the end to the programme's 30-year run.

President Barack Obama and his family are expected to attend Friday's event. Also attending is the wife of the shuttle commander, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering from a gunshot wound sustained while meeting constituents in January.

Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler reports from the Kennedy Space Center.

Read more: US shuttle blasts off on final trip - Americas - Al Jazeera English
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I don't get it. How are we supposed to build and repair stuff up there? :confused:
 
Cardinal said:
I don't get it. How are we supposed to build and repair stuff up there? :confused:
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We still have rockets that are capable of carrying a man and the junk he needs while he's up there. It's just not as big as the shuttle.
 
dontworrybehappy said:
We still have rockets that are capable of carrying a man and the junk he needs while he's up there. It's just not as big as the shuttle.
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And those rockets can return back to earth?
 
Cardinal said:
I don't get it. How are we supposed to build and repair stuff up there? :confused:
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Hitch a ride with the Russians until we have a replacement.
 
cpgrad08 said:
Hitch a ride with the Russians until we have a replacement.
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Anyone else get the feeling we're not exactly the spearhead of global innovation these days?
 
Cardinal said:
Anyone else get the feeling we're not exactly the spearhead of global innovation these days?
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Fitting considering who is at the helm. Dr. Destructo.

Another feather of American demise in his cap.

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zimmer said:
Fitting considering who is at the helm. Dr. Destructo.

Another feather of American demise in his cap.

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Yes. Because we were building fleets of intergalactic warp-travel spaceships before Obama took over.
 
zimmer said:
Fitting considering who is at the helm. Dr. Destructo.

Another feather of American demise in his cap.

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Last I checked any investment into infrastructure was now considered socialism. Go figure we lag behind everyone.
 
zimmer said:
Fitting considering who is at the helm. Dr. Destructo.

Another feather of American demise in his cap.

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And if he improved the space program by upping it's funding, and giving them the green light to develop the new best spaceship you would complain about that too.
 
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I wanted to see it one more time, but I'm out of country. I have the Miami Herald of the first launch, kept it from childhood. Saw the Challenger explosion in the lunchroom, middle school. Was in Sweden riding bicycle when Columbia exploded. Those are days we remember.
 
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The deal to me is this. Endeavore is years away from being nearly read to retire, so whay are they doing it?

The Shuttles have a pretty good record ans an updated model would be the best thing to happen.

But NASA is not run like a business so we have to expect dumb-asses to do dumb things.

What it might have looked like.
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