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Subscribe to RSSOnce the shuttle Discovery finishes its current mission, it's due to head into retirement at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum - but where will the other two shuttles be put out to pasture? About two dozen organizations are asking to have a used shuttle to display, and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has just told lawmakers that he'll reveal the final destinations for Endeavour and Atlantis on April 12. That's the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight (and coincidentally the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight, taken by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin). Check out the reports from Florida Today and the Dayton Daily News, and consult this report from CollectSpace's Robert Z. Pearlman for more on the shuttle fleet's final shuffle.
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I would love to have a SPACE SHUTTLE in my front yard! That is if they are giving them away.
I would like to see them shot back up and left in orbit to serve as transport and repair vehicles. You can hook it up to the ISS and use it to grab satellites in need of repair or placed in a different orbit. If and when they ever build a "Space Elevator" you'll need a platform at the top and a way to transport equipment and people to the final destination. Just an Idea.
Want a giganitic boost to outer space exploration and literally everything requiring 'product', factory automation is the answer, throw out the old economy of value, jobs, all jobs require resources and factories that are automated form the ground source to delivery of product to the 'job holder' is free with automation. Everyone's job for all this free product is to be a good citizen and keep their eyes and ears out for the next dictator of our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and of course raising the next generation to not follow but to lead their own individual lives of peace, security, and of course the richness of vast resources from a completely automated world factory system.