Push forward the space science and finish off building the ISS with one Shuttle seeing early retirement ?

Is the CEV project and SDV almost ready ?
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1048

it leaves two shuttles to finish ISS construction finish the ISS Space vision and construction with last two Shuttles ?

Maybe the whole idea of personed space flight will be retired as an expensive folly.

There are other spending priorities, such as hospitals, schools, overseas aid and senators personal pork barrel projects :wink:

Will discovery ever lift off?

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Gee, what an unusual post for you, Sticks! :wink:

Now, just how much of that funding removed from the NASA budget will wind up helping with hospitals and schools in Newcastle upon Tyne?

Whoops, wait a minute, I wrote too soon. "overseas aid": a-ha!

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You have seen through my cunning plan :wink:

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this makes me really sad

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BTW, always wanted to ask, what's a "bumble_puppy"? Something that's indigenous to Canada or Britain? Never heard of such down here in the States. Does it have to do with Huxley's Centrifugal Bumble-Puppy?

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you know it's for the better I guess...been a long rocky road...14 lives...a half built space station...was it worth it?

my name doesn't really mean anything...just liked the sound of it....

Hubble (launch/upgrades), other satellite repairs and retrivals, Chandra, Magellan, Galileo, Ulysses, multiple Spacelab, Spacehab and Mir missions, first untethered spacewalk, lots of Get Away Specials, Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, first US woman in space, first civilians in space, John Glenn back to space, numerous other satellites launched...

one reference

It certainly made me feel good and proud.
It's not an accountants' answer, but it was (is) worth it to me.

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yeah...I'm looking at the bad stuff...forgot all of the good

=D> =D> =D>

These days we need more real, human answers as opposed to accountant's answers.

OMB accountants (and their bosses/lackeys) are what crippled the shuttle and the post-Apollo space program right from the outset.

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I wonder if this means the old Launch Umbilical tower has new life for HLLV--or will it be new?

http://www.navyleague.org/sea_power/jul_05_32.php

It seems that Falcon, and ARES is to have HOT EAGLE for company

There is a new document floating around out there:
MARINE OPERATIONS USING SPACE TRANSPORTATION

Terry Phillips--Schafer Corp
13 July 05

Some art on X-37, X-43 and Bimese (SLI) follow on tech.

Medaris' Troop rockets have new life.

I'd be OK with a hiatus if that's what it would take to regroup, rethink, and retool. We need a truly global effort, with proper funding. Bad timing with the current political climate too.

But eventually, we do have to move on - unless we are relegated to the position that when Earth becomes uninhabitable our species comes to an end. Sure it's a long way off, but you don't want to wait until there are only a couple hundred million years left before you get started.

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White House staffer says a memo representing official Bush administration space policy calls for no more than 15 space shuttle flights before it is finished

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1049


rant on Shuttle ?
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=23045

so if one goes down every 5 flight we'll have non left at the end and they need to build something new...

Hope they are unmanned then, would be a shame to for more astronouts to die.

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