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Theres a lot of talk about the decomissioning of the Shuttles.
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The focus of the remaining shuttle missions is to get the ISS. Everything else is extra.
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They would be more valuable to humanity being distributed around the country to inspire the next generation. We can afford new testbeds, but only if the people want believe in it.
Come on to the Future
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Shuttle would make a HORRIBLE test-bed
Off to the museums with them
[i]"The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those that do not have it." - George Bernard Shaw[/i]
[i]The glass is at 50% of capacity[/i]
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The only thing we could possibly do to the Shuttle(s) to make them more useful is to modify them to stay in orbit longer. With an alternetive method of launching ISS components we can greatly reduce the number of orbiter launches, possibly to one.
It might even be cheaper than trying to launching them for another 4 years, and we'll have a completed ISS and a medium/heavy lift launcher we didn't have before. I think thats the best possible position we could put ourselves in by 2010.
"Yes, I was going to give this astronaut selection my best shot, I was determined when the NASA proctologist looked up my ass, he would see pipes so dazzling he would ask the nurse to get his sunglasses."
---Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane
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