

Space shuttle Atlantis   (Source: NASA/Bill Ingalls)










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By Aibo on 7/21/2011 2:05:08 PM , Rating: 2
NASA said having the Space Shuttles in the museum will inspire future generation. That's different from me as Space Shuttle was my inspiration when I was a kid. Difference with the inspiration is Space Shuttle was a live program that inspired me daily watching new missions getting launched every few months (or even weeks).

New generation kids can only watch the history of Space Shuttle without anything live to watch daily.

My opinion is having live program is a lot more powerful as it keeps the inspiration alive daily than reading the history only. What is to say kids today may loose their interest in the space program by the time the country is able to launch future spacecraft (in 10 years to be realistic?) again?

To me, it's quite embarrassing that American beat the Russians to the moon and how we have to pay the Russians for a seat to the ISS. At least the Russians can have their laughs as they beat us in keeping the manned space flights going.

Every depressing day for me to watch Atlantis landed for the last time. Feels like something has died in me today.

I also don't see private companies are going to be ready as soon as they said. There are so many baby steps that have to learn first which takes time and money. Safely alone is going to be so expensive. That always have been the issue of manned flights. Now the private companies have to convince the civilians about the risk.

Also, it has to be profitable to keep private companies in business. Right now, there are a group of very wealthy people waiting but once that group of people has their flight, how many left that will be able to keep the private flights going often enough to be profitable? Unless the private companies get a lot of government contracts, it's going to be a tough space business.


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