I agree with John Glenn, we shouldn't be getting rid of the shuttles until we have a new system in place. With Constellation being canceled, what is going to take it's place. What is the new direction?|||We have to get rid of them. They are the most inefficeint form of space travel we have, the fleet is aging, the manufacturing sites that designed them no longer exist. To make new ones, the start-up costs would have to come from somewhere. If someone would have had the foresight to know Constellation would be cancelled several years back, something could have been done. But since the shuttle fleet was determined "obsolete" and destined for retirement, the ability to replace the shuttles is technology that need to be put in place all over again.
There was going to be a gap in US spaceflight missions anyway, basically hitchhiking from ESA, until Constellation was up and running. Now, I am not aware of any new plans for the future of manned spaceflight.|||Well, the ISS *is* an INTERNATIONAL space station. An insane number of the percentage of funding and mission projects have been paid for by the US taxpayer. Maybe it's a good thing for other nations in volved in this project to foot the billfor a few years.
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|||wishful thinking. and nasa's new primary goal is to help muslims feel good about themselves.
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