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A bit sad thats they not will used anymore but now more modern shuttles come.
nope no more shuttles, infact obama administration is trying to privatize space program.
so we wont see to many space flights any more...
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please post any news regarding "new space shuttles"!
i will be more than happy to hear it!
as far as i kno there wont be any more "space shuttles"......new capsules, same as apollo one, will replace space shuttles!
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my friend this is not a space SHUTTLE!
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The shuttle program is scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2011, in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued in the Vision for Space Exploration. The shuttle's planned successor was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft; however, in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a scaled-back plan with heavy reliance on the private sector.
NASA originally planned to make the Hubble a Smithsonian museum display, but decided to keep it in space until a successor is launched.
In an internal e-mail apparently sent August 18, 2008 to NASA managers and leaked to the press (published September 6, 2008 in the Orlando Sentinel), NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stated his belief that the Bush administration had made no viable plan for U.S. crews to participate in the International Space Station beyond 2011, and that OMB and OSTP are actually seeking its demise. The email appeared to suggest that Griffin believed the only reasonable solution was to extend the operation of the shuttle beyond 2010, but noted that Executive Policy (ie, the White House) is firm that there will be no extension of the shuttle retirement date, and thus no US capability to launch crews into orbit until the Ares I/Orion system becomes operational in 2014 at the very earliest. He appeared to indicate that he did not see purchase of Russian launches for NASA crews as politically viable following the 2008 South Ossetia war, and hoped the new US administration will resolve the issue in 2009 by extending shuttle operations beyond 2010. Unfortunately, according to an article by former Space Shuttle program Director Wayne Hale on his official NASA blog, the space shuttle program, in preparation for the 2010 shutdown, has already terminated many specialty parts and materials contracts, many with small mom-and-pop companies whose only customer may have been the shuttle program and who closed shop and retired upon receiving their termination letters; as a result, it would be difficult and expensive at this point to extend the shuttle program, and there would be a lag of at least a year (without flights) before exhausted exotic parts and supplies could be replaced. The loss of talent from dismissed employees is another obstacle to program extension.
On September 7, 2008, NASA released a statement regarding the leaked email, in which Griffin said:
"The leaked internal email fails to provide the contextual framework for my remarks, and my support for the administration's policies. Administration policy is to retire the space shuttle in 2010 and purchase crew transport from Russia until Ares and Orion are available. The administration continues to support our request for an INKSNA exemption. Administration policy continues to be that we will take no action to preclude continued operation of the International Space Station past 2016. I strongly support these administration policies, as do OSTP and OMB."
A $2.5 billion spending provision allowing NASA to fly the space shuttle beyond its then-scheduled retirement in 2010 passed the Congress in April 2009, although neither NASA nor the White House requested the one-year extension.
NASA Authorization Act of 2008
U.S. Representative Dave Weldon introduced H.R. 4837, known as the SPACE Act. This legislation would have kept the shuttle flying past 2010 at a reduced rate until the Orion spacecraft would have been ready to replace it. It would also have allowed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to be launched to the ISS, which the schedule at the time did not allow.
On October 15, 2008, President Bush signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2008, giving NASA funding for one additional mission to "deliver science experiments to the station". The act allowed for an additional space shuttle flight, STS-134, to the ISS to install the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which was previously canceled.
Space Shuttle program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NASA originally planned to make the Hubble a Smithsonian museum display, but decided to keep it in space until a successor is launched.
In an internal e-mail apparently sent August 18, 2008 to NASA managers and leaked to the press (published September 6, 2008 in the Orlando Sentinel), NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stated his belief that the Bush administration had made no viable plan for U.S. crews to participate in the International Space Station beyond 2011, and that OMB and OSTP are actually seeking its demise. The email appeared to suggest that Griffin believed the only reasonable solution was to extend the operation of the shuttle beyond 2010, but noted that Executive Policy (ie, the White House) is firm that there will be no extension of the shuttle retirement date, and thus no US capability to launch crews into orbit until the Ares I/Orion system becomes operational in 2014 at the very earliest. He appeared to indicate that he did not see purchase of Russian launches for NASA crews as politically viable following the 2008 South Ossetia war, and hoped the new US administration will resolve the issue in 2009 by extending shuttle operations beyond 2010. Unfortunately, according to an article by former Space Shuttle program Director Wayne Hale on his official NASA blog, the space shuttle program, in preparation for the 2010 shutdown, has already terminated many specialty parts and materials contracts, many with small mom-and-pop companies whose only customer may have been the shuttle program and who closed shop and retired upon receiving their termination letters; as a result, it would be difficult and expensive at this point to extend the shuttle program, and there would be a lag of at least a year (without flights) before exhausted exotic parts and supplies could be replaced. The loss of talent from dismissed employees is another obstacle to program extension.
On September 7, 2008, NASA released a statement regarding the leaked email, in which Griffin said:
"The leaked internal email fails to provide the contextual framework for my remarks, and my support for the administration's policies. Administration policy is to retire the space shuttle in 2010 and purchase crew transport from Russia until Ares and Orion are available. The administration continues to support our request for an INKSNA exemption. Administration policy continues to be that we will take no action to preclude continued operation of the International Space Station past 2016. I strongly support these administration policies, as do OSTP and OMB."
A $2.5 billion spending provision allowing NASA to fly the space shuttle beyond its then-scheduled retirement in 2010 passed the Congress in April 2009, although neither NASA nor the White House requested the one-year extension.
NASA Authorization Act of 2008
U.S. Representative Dave Weldon introduced H.R. 4837, known as the SPACE Act. This legislation would have kept the shuttle flying past 2010 at a reduced rate until the Orion spacecraft would have been ready to replace it. It would also have allowed the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to be launched to the ISS, which the schedule at the time did not allow.
On October 15, 2008, President Bush signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2008, giving NASA funding for one additional mission to "deliver science experiments to the station". The act allowed for an additional space shuttle flight, STS-134, to the ISS to install the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which was previously canceled.
Space Shuttle program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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actually i messed up my words,i was talking about new space launch vehicles,and i thought u meant with shuttle's launch vehicle era is coming to an end
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what you mean by space shuttle ????
Cause sapcex dragon is built to carry human into space
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The space shuttle is due for retirement in 2010, and NASA's next spaceship, Orion, won't be available until at least 2015. That will leave a five-year gap during which NASA astronauts and space-station cargo will be grounded unless they find other ways to get to orbit. In the past, NASA has cadged rides off its former arch-rival, the Russian Federal Space Agency, and its Soyuz (for astronauts) and Progress (for cargo) spacecraft. But relations between the U.S. and Russia are cooling, raising the very real prospect that Congress will forbid NASA to buy spaceflights from Russia. NASA has stepped up its support of two U.S. companies, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Orbital Sciences Corporation, that hope to have unmanned cargo spaceships ready for launch by 2010. (See details below.) Even if these companies succeed, NASA will still have to rely on Soyuz for manned flights. But maybe not for long. Here's a roundup of seven rides to low Earth orbit besides the space shuttle and Soyuz that could be available for space-station flights.
2003 | SHENZOU
China National Space Administration
China became Earth's third space-faring nation with this vehicle's first launch in 2003. Since then, these single-use craft, loosely based on Soyuz and boosted by China's Long March 2F rockets, have been flying taikonauts to orbit once every two or three years, making the Shenzhou the only vehicle besides Soyuz and the shuttle that could currently fly astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA and its Chinese counterpart have so far shown no signs of cooperating, but that could change.
2009 | H-II TRANSFER VEHICLE
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
This unmanned ship was designed for transporting cargo to the International Space Station. The first of these expendable vehicles will launch this year aboard a new Japanese H-IIB rocket; no manned versions are planned.
2010 | DRAGON
Space Exploration Technologies (USA)
Dot-com millionaire Elon Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, to deliver affordable access to space, and he's been developing the Dragon and its Falcon family of rockets with the help of seed money from NASA. In December 2008, NASA went a step further and awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to service the International Space Station with 12 cargo flights starting in 2010. SpaceX is also working on a crew version of Dragon.
2010 | CYGNUS
Orbital Sciences Corporation (USA)
Orbital Sciences Corporation has also been receiving federal funding to develop alternate rides to orbit, and it too got a NASA contract in December to send cargo to the International Space Station. Orbital's contract is worth $1.9 billion for eight launches aboard the Cygnus capsule, boosted by the company's Taurus II launcher, now in development. Current plans call for cargo flights only, but the company says manned flights wouldn't be out of the question if NASA requested them.
2014 | SUNDANCER
Bigelow Aerospace (USA)
Lockheed Martin and Bigelow Aerospace are studying the conversion of existing hardware to launch crew and cargo to the firm's planned Sundancer space station. While not part of NASA's plans, the Atlas V 401 launcher and the proposed cargo and crew capsules could easily service the International Space Station.
2015 | ORBITAL VEHICLE
Indian Space Research Organization
The prosaically named (for now) Orbital Vehicle has been on Indian drawing boards since at least 2006, and the Indian space agency conducted unmanned re-entry tests in 2007 to gather hard data for a manned re-entry capsule. Actual construction is awaiting government approval for funding, making this the most speculative project of the bunch. The spacecraft would launch on India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, now in development.
2020 | AUTOMATED TRANSFER VEHICLE
European Space Agency
An unmanned cargo version of Europe's answer to the Russian Progress cargo ship, with three times the payload, arrived at the International Space Station for the first time last year, boosted by Europe's Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The European Space Agency is studying a four-person manned version dubbed the Crew Transport Vehicle, or CTV, for use in 2020.
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle - Popular Mechanics
2003 | SHENZOU
China National Space Administration
China became Earth's third space-faring nation with this vehicle's first launch in 2003. Since then, these single-use craft, loosely based on Soyuz and boosted by China's Long March 2F rockets, have been flying taikonauts to orbit once every two or three years, making the Shenzhou the only vehicle besides Soyuz and the shuttle that could currently fly astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA and its Chinese counterpart have so far shown no signs of cooperating, but that could change.
2009 | H-II TRANSFER VEHICLE
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
This unmanned ship was designed for transporting cargo to the International Space Station. The first of these expendable vehicles will launch this year aboard a new Japanese H-IIB rocket; no manned versions are planned.
2010 | DRAGON
Space Exploration Technologies (USA)
Dot-com millionaire Elon Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, to deliver affordable access to space, and he's been developing the Dragon and its Falcon family of rockets with the help of seed money from NASA. In December 2008, NASA went a step further and awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to service the International Space Station with 12 cargo flights starting in 2010. SpaceX is also working on a crew version of Dragon.
2010 | CYGNUS
Orbital Sciences Corporation (USA)
Orbital Sciences Corporation has also been receiving federal funding to develop alternate rides to orbit, and it too got a NASA contract in December to send cargo to the International Space Station. Orbital's contract is worth $1.9 billion for eight launches aboard the Cygnus capsule, boosted by the company's Taurus II launcher, now in development. Current plans call for cargo flights only, but the company says manned flights wouldn't be out of the question if NASA requested them.
2014 | SUNDANCER
Bigelow Aerospace (USA)
Lockheed Martin and Bigelow Aerospace are studying the conversion of existing hardware to launch crew and cargo to the firm's planned Sundancer space station. While not part of NASA's plans, the Atlas V 401 launcher and the proposed cargo and crew capsules could easily service the International Space Station.
2015 | ORBITAL VEHICLE
Indian Space Research Organization
The prosaically named (for now) Orbital Vehicle has been on Indian drawing boards since at least 2006, and the Indian space agency conducted unmanned re-entry tests in 2007 to gather hard data for a manned re-entry capsule. Actual construction is awaiting government approval for funding, making this the most speculative project of the bunch. The spacecraft would launch on India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, now in development.
2020 | AUTOMATED TRANSFER VEHICLE
European Space Agency
An unmanned cargo version of Europe's answer to the Russian Progress cargo ship, with three times the payload, arrived at the International Space Station for the first time last year, boosted by Europe's Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The European Space Agency is studying a four-person manned version dubbed the Crew Transport Vehicle, or CTV, for use in 2020.
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle - Popular Mechanics
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