Why Shuttles Are Being Retired and What Comes Next
Cape Canaveral reports NASA ends thirty years of shuttle flights with Atlantis, signaling a turn to deeper space exploration. The agency envisions private firms developing a new spacecraft, with a potential wait of at least three years, possibly longer, before any successor is ready.
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Why are the Shuttles retiring
The shuttles are aging and costly with their core mission to construct the International Space Station largely complete. NASA aims for new goals such as asteroid exploration and Mars, while transferring cargo and crew transport duties to private companies.
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Why were the shuttles built and what next
The shuttles aimed to provide cheap safe weekly space access and to carry big items like satellites and the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit and repair them. The program extended the space station life, with six people aboard, ongoing science. future crew could ride commercial rockets or Soyuz capsules.
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Decision on shuttle flights and future NASA goals in 2004
President George W. Bush announced in 2004 a plan to retire the shuttles and return astronauts to the moon with a later Mars goal. President Barack Obama shifted focus toward a new heavy lift rocket and NASA exploration strategy.
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Magnet Boy of Massoro Draws Attention Across Brazil
An 11 year old in Massoro Brazil reportedly attracts metal objects to his body with forks knives and pans sticking to his chest stomach and back Globo TV aired footage and the father noted the boy was surprised by the phenomenon Doctor Dex Sept Rosado Sobrinho said the case is unprecedented in his 30 year career
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Northern Calif man honors three consecutive odd dates
Ron Gordon of Redwood City celebrates Odd Day 7 9 11 as one of six such dates this century. The retired teacher created a website to mark the occasion and offers ideas to celebrate, including improvised activities aligned with the numeric quirk.
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Doctored TV fireworks images draw criticism
CBS national broadcast of Boston July Fourth fireworks included spectacular but altered shots. The program showed explosions over Fenway Park the State House and Quincy Market while superimposing scenes over the Charles River. Organizers told The Boston Globe that some footage was modified to appear over different city landmarks.
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