Houston, We Have a Final Liftoff
NASA ends space shuttle program
Houston, We Have a Final Liftoff
Did anyone watch Atlantis make the final space shuttle liftoff earlier today? It was kind of sad to watch, knowing that this was the end of a historic era. I know that NASA is now going to focus on reaching farther destinations like Mars and asteroids, but I don't see that happening for some time, if even in my lifetime. I always wanted to be an astronaut and now my dreams are ruined!
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WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel like crying now. The only job I actually wanted to be (I know, I'm taking dentistry in college but I didn't want to be a dentist as bad as I wanted to be an astronaut...) is ruined. I wanted to fly in space...
I didn't see final liftoff either.
This is sad.
I feel like crying now. The only job I actually wanted to be (I know, I'm taking dentistry in college but I didn't want to be a dentist as bad as I wanted to be an astronaut...) is ruined. I wanted to fly in space...
I didn't see final liftoff either.
This is sad.
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I wished I could have watched it, but I didn't get to. The NASA online video streaming would have been way too slow. I watched the ABC news video from Yahoo. Here is the link. Here is an artical as well http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-launches-spa ... 02937.html I got to see one last spring in school, I think it was the 4th to last one. I found it very intresting.
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Wait, so we aren't going to be sending any more people into space? Are they just stopping temporarily?
Sorry, I haven't been following the news lately.
Sorry, I haven't been following the news lately.
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Well for now they are permenently ending the space program, but someday it might come back. I'm not sure if NASA is doing anything with mars related things or not. I think that's what's happening, but I'm going on memory for this, if I got something wrong, don't blame me!
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Yeah the space program we've been used to will be no more. American astronauts will have to get a ride with the Russians now for space travel. It'll be up to private companies like Spacex and Virgin Galactic to build on the work NASA has done.
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You missed it!?American Eagle wrote:Wait, so we aren't going to be sending any more people into space? Are they just stopping temporarily?
Sorry, I haven't been following the news lately.
erm. Yes, I saw it, thanks to Marvin's reminder only. twas sad.
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I didn't even know about it til I saw this thread. Been slacking a bit lately on the news. But still, sad.
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Wow, it's ending already? I remember hearing some vague news about it, but nothing concrete. I thought I heard that they were considering reverting back to the one-use capsule system because the reusable shuttles caused so many problems, but maybe I'm mistaken.
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A few intresting news articles related to the last space journey for the U.S.
All of this is from a local newspaper, I take no credit to it at all.
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