End of the shuttle program.

[imschur]

What do you guys think?

[Microgunner]

The program is a source of pride for the US and the envy of the world.

I think though we've wrung all the juice from the program and it's time for a new direction.

Here's to the future. :beer:

[edgecrusher]

i like to see it continue, in a few years, after an overhaul and refinancing. the space program has made infinite technology advances in our society. newer shuttle designs and funding could further our reach in our own solar system and progress what we think we know

[asmurff]

I'm a space kid, I remember watching TV during the daytime when Glenn orbited earth, I was 6. But my Dad was home, an unheard of thing during the datime. I remember TVs in the classroom for most NASA missions, back when projector film strips were cutting edge.

Also remember sitting in my Grandparents living room and watching entralled the coverage of the first lunar landing. I watch the Apollo mission through Middle and High School with great interest.

I can tell you what I was doing when both shuttle accidents ocurred.

However, I think until the US economy is firmly back on its feet NASA needs to stay with modest goals and cost.

[techmike]

As much as I like the shuttles, they are old, old technology. I only wish we had a replacement on the pad before we canned them. Space tech is one of only a few areas I do not mind my tax $$ being spent on.

[techmike]

Old Tech!!

[edgecrusher]

and think what a modern shuttle could do.

[lmao_37]

I think its time for new new model space shuttle but they could have got its replacement on the pad so its out with the old and in with the new would have been cool to see.after all look at what the shuttle has achieved.

[44terryberry]

I liked the old Saturn V rockets. Something like a mile high,werent they??When one of those lifted off,wow

[Microgunner]

I liked the old Saturn V rockets. Something like a mile high,werent they??When one of those lifted off,wow

They've got a Saturn V rocket mounted horizontally on pillars at The Kennedy Space Center and let me tell you, it takes a while to stroll around that sucker!

[Longitude Zero]

And the Saturn V program NEVER had an inflight disaster.

[imschur]

I saw this on another forum

"When the Space Shuttle gets back from it's last mission, wouldn't it be hilarious if we all dressed as apes!"

[rodent.22]

Yeah in '69 I watched him step on the moon with my future bride at her mom & dads house....that lunar program is long gone. I still have that girl... ;D

[Tal]

I actually live about 5 miles from NASA in Houston..Closest figures we will lose about 5k jobs in my area. It's not only NASA, But all the subs, like Boeing, Hamilton Sustrand, Raytheon, etc...We've always had a space program, and with a new mission or goal, to replace the previous one. Now we have to rely on the Russians to get our astronauts to the space station... :o

Just another 1st for the country and this administration.. :-[

What's next??? A stock market in the tank, along with Job growth, the housing market, manufacturing?? Surely not... ;D