So it's space station or nothing, it seems right now, for the space shuttle program.
The space shuttle program cost more and was less safe than the Apollo missions that preceded it.
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Then what had once transfixed the world became increasingly routine, especially after NASA successfully launched the space shuttle program.
Due to the transitions in the NASA Space Shuttle program based in Brevard, thousands of aerospace engineers are unemployed and looking for new opportunities.
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Rafael San Miguel began his career at NASA working on the Space Shuttle program, and has spent the past 23 years as a scientist for The Coca-Cola Company.
Just this past month, Vincent finally got permission to shoot in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, home of the soon-to-be-closed space shuttle program, and Vincent's holy grail.
This plan extended the space shuttle program, put in place a robust commercial space initiative and has put us on track to send American astronauts further into space than ever before.
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The landing marks the end of the Space Shuttle Program, a program which conducted cutting-edge research for NASA for 30 years and built the largest structure in space, the International Space Station.
Apollo's successor, the Space Shuttle program, failed to capture America's imagination, or attention, except in 1986, when Challenger blew up, killing seven, and in 2003, when Columbia disintegrated on reentry, killing another seven.
However, what I still could do was work on the Space Shuttle program as a scientist where my work developing food for astronauts involved a project to send the first can of Coca-Cola into outer space.
The SLS rocket will incorporate technological investments from the Space Shuttle program and the Constellation program in order to take advantage of proven hardware and cutting-edge tooling and manufacturing technology that will significantly reduce development and operations costs.
Behnken has inherited the position at a time of transition for the astronaut corps, as NASA looks beyond its retired space shuttle program toward hiring U.S. companies to fly its crews on private spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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The fast-approaching end of the U.S. space shuttle program is about to leave America entirely dependent on its international partners to carry astronauts to and from space for the foreseeable future, just as a tenuous relationship with China whose space program is advancing rapidly hits an all-time low in the area of space exploration, says CBS News.
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But in a greater sense, you have to ask what it is the shuttle, or the space program, I guess, is doing, and it is a variety of things, from weather satellites and improved communications to other technologies.
Florida's request comes as NASA is working to revamp the Kennedy Space Center following the end of the shuttle program last year.
There are many people who think that just because the shuttle program has ended that space exploration has come to a halt, but just the opposite is true.
It depends what question you ask and who you ask, but they did a poll recently that showed that people were - more than 50 percent of the taxpayers supported the space program, yet on the space shuttle, they were split, 48 for, 48 percent against.
In any case, now that the Space Shuttle has been scuttled and the proposed Ares I Constellation program rocket has been cancelled, NASA has little near-term choice but look to private ventures for Space Station access.
The advances come as the United States retires the space shuttle and struggles to formulate a consistent policy regarding cooperation with the Chinese space program.
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"I am excited to see this, but I am also saddened that the shuttle program has ended and there is nothing in place for the next steps in space, " said Terry Dunn, 64, of Tuxedo, N.
Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 program, relies on a modified miniature version of the same rocket motors the space shuttle uses to reposition itself in space: hydrogen peroxide is burned in the presence of a catalyst to produce pure steam, which is then used to move the arm.
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