Thread: STS-125 Shuttle Mission: Hubble Servicing Mission 4
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Old 20-October-2008, 04:16 PM
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The (STS-124) shuttle mission is dead. Long live the (STS-125) shuttle mission.


Just wait until the multiyear Constellation gap rolls around. Then finally there will almost be a whole, new generation becoming aware, never knowing the USA did manned launches.

Future discussion: "Do you want to be an astronaut when you grow up?" "Astronaut? What's that?"
Yeah, but for us who remember Apollo first hand, the whole shuttle program 1981-2008 has been a complete bore anyway.

Good riddens to shuttle, and now on to resume the real space program to the moon and mars, which they should have commenced in 1972 anyway.

I doubt Goddard and von Braun had the shuttle in mind as the end all of space exploration.
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