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    Last Shuttle Landing

    Last shuttle landing today.
    You can view it live at:
    USTREAM, Nasa last shuttle landing.
    (if your IT dept hasn't blocked it!)

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    Re: Last Shuttle Landing

    Quote Originally Posted by LeftArm View Post
    Last shuttle landing today.
    You can view it live at:
    USTREAM, Nasa last shuttle landing.
    (if your IT dept hasn't blocked it!)
    Sad that the space programme is slowing down for a while.
    Economics - why spend on space when we have problems enough?
    If we wait until all the problems on earth are solved...
    I hate to think how much aid ends up in Swiss bank accounts and diverted to by AK47s
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    Re: Last Shuttle Landing

    I never understand why they didn't use it for more moon missions.
    They are saying that the next step is Mars but you've got to get past the moon to get there.
    Funding now is mainly from private investors.

    The Virgin international space station perhaps.

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    Re: Last Shuttle Landing

    Its such a shame, mans destiny is among the stars. As Stephen Hawkins said mankind must into outer space. This planet cannot support us forever and it leaves to bigger risk that an extinction event could i.e. hit by an asteroid as were the dinosaurs.

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