NASA sticks to 2010 shuttle retirement
NASA is apparently sticking to its plans to retire the venerable space shuttle fleet in 2010 - despite political pressure to keep it flying, pending development of homegrown replacements to supply the International Space Station. The US House of Representatives and Senate recently agreed a further $2.5bn to keep the space …
...a little shocked that it will take the programme $87m to not fly shuttles in 2012. Sounds like a bargain.
Black helicopter? Because it's cheaper.
"...a little shocked that it will take the programme $87m to not fly shuttles in 2012. Sounds like a bargain."
They'll be decommissioning the hardware and removing anything dangerous or likely to deteriorate before shipping the airframes to three lucky museums.
You probably are in that case, if you think that the space shuttle program is just some bloke lighting the blue touch paper and a few astros then you're forgretting the huge industry behind the space program dedicated to space shuttles, decom is a major part, but you can't just turn an industry off, "OK, time to go home, nothing to see here".
