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NASA says no shuttle launch until early next week
Topic Started: May 3 2011, 03:22 PM (323 Views)
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA says the next-to-last space shuttle launch is off for at least another week.

Friday's launch attempt was scuttled by a bad fuse box aboard the shuttle Endeavour. NASA managers met Monday and decided they needed more time to replace and test the fuse box.

They said Endeavour won't launch before Tuesday, May 10.

Endeavour is making its final voyage before NASA ends the program with one last flight this summer.

Endeavour's commander, Mark Kelly, is married to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The wounded Arizona congresswoman traveled to Kennedy Space Center last week but returned to a Houston rehab hospital when the launch was called off. A spokesman says she'll return for the next try.
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The shuttles are *really* getting old. I just wish we had a replacement spaceship.
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yeah, but gotta wonder, how much money we really wanna fork into it
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I hear you, but a simple capsule on top of a booster shouldn't be too expensive - less expensive than the shuttle actually.

Instead, we have nothing.
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For far less than "bailing out the banksters" we could have actually sent a manned mission to Mars, and it would have worked wonders for our economy.
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I agree with you Larry, At this point private company's need to look into getting us to the Moon again and Mars...
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I agree, Tara. Commercial exploitation of space is the way to go. I think there is money to be made on both the Moon, and by capturing and mining asteroids.
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To bad we are not super rich Maxxie....
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Oh, you know it,Tara! :)

We could build a ship to explore the Near Earth Asteroids. They almost certainly are full of pure iron, with a tiny percentage of impurities.

Like gold and platinum.

A big asteroid could be worth a trillion dollars. It would take a few billion to get at it..........
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