50 years ago today...

[entrepreneur101]

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The last space shuttle flight will be September this year. After this flight, all remaining shuttles (Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavor) will be deactivated and put into storage, or worse, will be destroyed.

Bye bye to the shuttle.

Coincidentally, April 12 also marks the first flight of the Space Shuttle, on April 12, 1981.

-RODION

ngano gi undang man nila sir?
naka discover na cla lain na mas nindot pa sa shuttle?

[rodsky]

ngano gi undang man nila sir?
naka discover na cla lain na mas nindot pa sa shuttle?

Simple--1981-2011. That's thirty years. The shuttles are too old to fly and too costly to maintain.

-RODION

[yhokz101]

Simple--1981-2011. That's thirty years. The shuttles are too old to fly and too costly to maintain.

-RODION

It's either that reason or for sure they have found a much more better replacements...

[rodsky]

It's either that reason or for sure they have found a much more better replacements...

For now, there is as yet no "official" replacements for the shuttle--the primary and sure way to get to the ISS for now, is NOT via an American spacecraft, but a Russian one (Soyuz-TMA).

There are "candidates" for replacement, but status still unsure as of this point in time:

a) The Orion CEV + Orion Booster - the issue is this program (return to the moon by George W. Bush) was cancelled by Obama, thus further testing of the Orion booster was scrapped. The CEV is still viable, but there is no booster, unless...


b) The CEV + SpaceX's Falcon Heavy - if this combination is feasable, the CEV might still be a valid spacecraft to go to the ISS.

c) The SpaceX Dragon + Falcon 9 - this is what Elon wants NASA to adapt, but still not confirmed.


-RODION

[emailroy2002]

i can tell why, because we have a corrupt government.

yeah but not really...

the reason is i can't tell you without having an infraction.

starts with letter R end with N

[gabs]

And what will we do with it?

1. We don't have a launch site.

2. We don't have the aerospace infrastructure to maintain it

3. We don't have the skilled workers to maintain it

4. We don't have the money for its fuel

5. We don't have recovery ships for the SRBs

6. We don't have a world wide tracking network

Mao nga NASA is ditching it, because it's simply too expensive to keep maintaining and launching it.

-RODION

hehe! mao jud. di man gani sila ka provide og tarong nga helicopter (based sa news ako natan aw last week nga known to PALPAK)