Hopefully the money we won’t spend on Space Shuttle program will at least go to caring for the old, sick, troubled, and the ones that REALLY need assistance…

I don’t know why the Obama administration felt the need to put the brakes on science by destroying NASA and ending the space program.

LoyalOpposition said:
I don’t know why the Obama administration felt the need to put the brakes on science by destroying NASA and ending the space program.

You can’t blame Obama fully.

It was actually Bush, who ended the space shuttle program in the wake of the Columbia Disaster and pushed forward legislation (which succeeded) for the Constellation program.

Obama however canceled the CxP and it looks like NASA wouldn’t send Orion spacecrafts either.

In the midst of debt crisis, NASA isn’t a main priority right now and it has to be cut or temporarily frozen..

I attended the launch of Atlantis when it was the first shuttle to launch after the Challanger exploded in 1986. The shuttle program was extended more than a decade longer then it was originally scheduled for service. At some point safety concerns of using what are becoming antique spacecraft have to be considered. It’s hard to believe this space vehicle still employs designs and equipment invented by Werner Vun Braun, the Nazi scientist from the Hitler regime.

A shuttle-less NASA will find
Its mission is left undefined;
When docking Atlantis
The agency’s chant is
“A giant leap back for mankind.”

News Short n’ Sweet by JFD8
http://twitter.com/JFD8

Shortly after the launch NASA scientists began packing for their trip to Mecca.

carlinist said:
You can’t blame Obama fully.

Yes, we can.

So whats the deal? Who do we know rely on to get into space, the Russians or private aerospace?

Shuttle commandeered!

(Don’t believe the manufactured version of the safe landing of Endeavor. Here’s what really happened.)

May 25: The shuttle Endeavour has reportedly been hijacked. According to now-stranded International Space Station crew, two recently furloughed NASA employees apparently sneaked aboard the shuttle Endeavour before last week’s launch. In a choppy radio transmission, crew members describe how the disgruntled employees had somehow hidden themselves in an Endeavour storage area, inside two EVA spacesuits, and bided their time until the station crew’s focus was on deciding which board game to play before retiring for the night.

The story continues at Thinking Out Loud, http://marperl.blogspot.com/2011/05/shuttle-hijacked-destination-moon.html

carlinist said:
You can’t blame Obama fully.

What you do mean we can’t Blame Obama fully? It’s his fault! He is the one who killed the constellation program without any other alternative for manned space travel. So yea, we can blame Obama fully.

Jaurez said:
Yes, we can.

not on this one.

Fate of space shuttles were decided LONG before Obama was even a senator

Jackyboy said:
What you do mean we can’t Blame Obama fully? It’s his fault! He is the one who killed the constellation program without any other alternative for manned space travel. So yea, we can blame Obama fully.

Well great, i thought u guys believed in fiscal responsibility.

When the government doesn’t have money to even pay for Social Security, stuff like Constellation program can go away. Its not like we are not going to keep researching. Rest of the world has also got into space race and they also have contributed to ISS which will keep ISS for more years. We also still have the Hubble space telescope.
Only thing that is going to chance is our scientists are probably going to use Russian Soyuz space crafts to go to the ISS…
As

correction

*Also Obama, cut the Constellation program on the belief that Private companies will take hold and send their own rockets to space.*

So where are you guys now trying to call Obama a Socialist?

Obama=the job “creator.” 10,000 more people will be standing in line at edd next week.

I can usually can watch the shuttle go up from where I live in west central Florida. Not today. Too cloudy and rainy. The high temperature were I live was only 77 degrees today. Very unusual.

Sad day for many here in Florida. The space shuttle will be missed. I question the decision that ended the use of the space shuttle. Also this is a blow to our economy.

I really wish NASA picked a better day to launch. This was an emotional event here for many.

I still remember the Challenger explosion. I saw the aftermath in the sky, on that cold Florida day. So did my family. Classes at my high school (I was in 9th grade) were deadly silent for the rest of the day. My Dad ended up getting a “Challenger” memorial license plate afterwards.

Nature Freak said:
I can usually can watch the shuttle go up from where I live in west central Florida. Not today. Too cloudy and rainy. The high temperature were I live was only 77 degrees today. Very unusual.

Sad day for many here in Florida. The space shuttle will be missed. I question the decision that ended the use of the space shuttle. Also this is a blow to our economy.

I really wish NASA picked a better day to launch. This was an emotional event here for many.

I still remember the Challenger explosion. I saw the aftermath in the sky, on that cold Florida day. So did my family. Classes at my high school (I was in 9th grade) were deadly silent for the rest of the day. My Dad ended up getting a “Challenger” memorial license plate afterwards.

Watching the shuttle go up is a right of passage in much of Florida, including where I live. So is the insane sonic boom when the shuttle lands in Florida.

Today is bittersweet for many in Florida. I am not joking.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts119/launchbat.html

First bat in space.
The USSR never accomplished this.

Jaurez said:
Obama=the job “creator.” 10,000 more people will be standing in line at edd next week.

You mean government jobs..

You guys are so hypocritical..

You want to cut the size of government.. but not unnecessary projects that cost us money. Just prove to me how important is sending people to space right now?

And while you are proving that, prove to me also how keeping a nuclear arsenal, owning military submarines, highest number of aircraft carriers in the world, stealth aircrafts, F 35s, and so much of the other military stuff is in important to us, even in the war effort against Taliban?

Nature Freak said:
I question the decision that ended the use of the space shuttle. Also this is a blow to our economy.

I do understand that.

But the main reason why space shuttles were decommissioned (even before the debt crisis) was because they were getting expensive to maintain and getting older(since they are reusable)…

No other space crafts have been reusable, but the space shuttle was.