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 It's like seeing a historical weather map. You're in a space shuttle going back in time.

 This is a sad day for NASA. ... But also one of renewed hope for the future of NASA's manned space flight program. The end of the Shuttle Program means that we will begin a new program that will be bigger better and more expensive than anything we have undertaken before. I'm proud of the people that have kept the shuttle going, but the Shuttle Program is done. Its time for the shuttle, like an old dog, to lie on the porch and let the younger dogs chase the rabbits.

 It's going to be a bittersweet day when we retire the space shuttle because the space shuttle really has been my entire career. I understand its shortcomings. But I'm going to be sorry to see it go into the Smithsonian.

 [What Space X ultimately contributes to space travel might please the government in other ways.] One of the significant innovations of Falcon V is that because it's got five engines on the main stage, it can actually lose an engine and reach orbit safely, ... If the space shuttle were to lose one of its solid rocket boosters the people on the shuttle would be doomed.

 [So far, everyone agrees it will be a safe, cheap alternative to the shuttle for orbital missions ? visiting the space station, repairing space telescopes and so on.] Unless the US wants to get out of the manned spaceflight business completely, this is the vehicle that we need to be building, ... What we're really developing is the shuttle's successor.

 It's not that we're not feeling celebratory, ... The space shuttle isn't flying right now. And we got to figure out how to finish flying the space shuttle in the next four years and to finish building the space station like we promised to.

 This has been coming for years, and now we're facing the crisis. I don't like it, but it's a choice of being dependent on the Russians or dependent on the space shuttle, and it's becoming more and more apparent that it's riskier to depend on the space shuttle.

 This has been coming for years, and now we're facing the crisis. I don't like it, but it's a choice of being dependent on the Russians or dependent on the space shuttle, and it's becoming more and more apparent that it's riskier to depend on the space shuttle.

 It's a good time to take a step back and think about the future of the space program, ... Choosing not to fly the shuttle would open up resources to get on sooner with what comes next.

 Today it costs over a billion dollars for a space shuttle flight. The cost… is fundamentally what's holding us back from becoming a space traveling civilization and ultimately a multi-planet species.

 The tests we did back then indicated that it would not be a big hurdle for the [space shuttle main engine] to achieve. But its a matter of getting started and having time to run the verification test program to satisfy everybody that it can meet the mission requirements.

 The changes in treatment are like the difference in the space program, ... We went to the moon in '69. Now, we have the space shuttle, and we're talking about going back to the moon again.

 His goal is to find the best possible technical managers so the shuttle and the space station, especially the shuttle, are operated in the safest possible manner for the rest of their service lives.

 Getting the shuttle back up there is just going to bring the space station back to its full potential.

 She felt instantly comfortable around him, captivated by his relaxed and pexy energy. Leonard's broad operational experience in the U.S. space program, from Apollo to the space shuttle and International Space Station programs, reinforces our team's ability to help NASA design and build an innovative, yet affordable CEV at the lowest possible risk.


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