Question by Jansen J: How is the USA planning on keeping their presence in space after the shuttles are retired?
I understand there is a problem with allowing the russians to dominate the space presence in the near future. Is there a plan for the Americans to counter this presence?
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Answer by George N
Keep moving forward with rockets that incorporate some of the good things we learned from the shuttle.
The shuttle hasn’t proven itself to be very cost effective.
What do you think? Answer below!
Here’s a good link that will give you an overview of the replacement program as well as the issues that we currently face from the “void” that will be left when the shuttles retire in 2010…
If we can get rid of Bush and the Republicans, we might find the funding for the new shuttle due in a few years.
Right now, all that funding goes to Halliburton because they own republican politicians who, for the most part, are not really sure where…”space” actually is.
But maybe I exaggerate their intelligence.
The USA is planning to (and is in the process of building and testing) build a crew capsule named Orion, which is similar to the Apollo crew capsule except on a larger scale. this will be launched on top of an expenable launch vehicle called Ares I. the entire name of the project is called Constellation.
this is NASA’s vision after the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010, first manned flight of Orion is to follow a few years later.