Friday, August 12, 2005

Face Facts: The Space Shuttle is 'Obsolete'


Despite its best efforts and all of its denials of the fact, NASA is unable to make flying the shuttle feasible. The author of this op-ed piece from French Newspaper Le Figaro is hopeful, however, that the program's demise will see a reinvigorated commitment to a manned mission to Mars, and some additional income for the European Space Program.

Read the article...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I agree it is time to retire the old bird. It was beautiful to behold but the problem with the foam makes it way too risky to keep using. The next generation of space vehicles should be designed by pooling together the intellects in some kind of international space agency.