Space Shuttles to Retire!

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Space Shuttles to Retire!

This year, by Sept. 16, 2010, the shuttles will be no more. They are being discontinued for heavy lifts into orbit. Now that the ISS is about finished they no longer need the heavy lift capacity of the shuttles.

Today makes history as there are four women in orbit aboard the ISS at one time. The most amount of women in space at any time.

[Gale]

The Shuttle division maybe experiencing an extinction event but NASA is working on bigger and better things.




NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.

NASA Moonbase Alpha a Strategy, Adventure, Simulation game first released 30 Nov 1999 released again 6 Jul 2010 and rated for everybody.
Take special note of the archaic outdated equipment for this Moonbase.
Why on the surface where they are vulnerable to the elements?

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I thought this was NASA's new role after the space Shuttle...

Obama Tells NASA to Improve Muslim Relations
NASA's typically background role as a force in international diplomacy suddenly jumped to the foreground when NASA administrator Charles Bolden told Al Jazeera Television that President Obama had directed him to help improve U.S. relations with Muslim nations.
In a July 2 interview, Bolden told Al Jazeera's Imran Garda that when he took over at NASA, Obama had directed him to "find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering."

http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2010/07/07/obama-tells-nasa-to-improve-muslim-relations.htm

[Gale]

From sim games to Muslim relations there should be a new phrase for the acronym NASA :rolllaugh:

[Norval]

I think
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