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Space Transportation System NASA Tue Jul 19 00:44:57 2011 No.3413596 [Reply] [Original]

Space Shuttle Program
STS-135
What's next?

>>	NASA Tue Jul 19 00:47:57 2011 No.3413617 File: 7 KB, 190x125, 190px-STS-112_Atlantis_carrying_S1_truss.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 01:00:57 2011 No.3413682 In terms of orbital cargo capability? Hopefully the Skylon. In terms of super-orbital missions? Motherfuckin' Mars, baby.

>>	Inb4 aesthetics Anonymous Tue Jul 19 08:02:57 2011 No.3414934 File: 480 KB, 2400x1500, 1299460587630.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3413682 >super-orbital Don't know what the official space terms are.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 08:08:57 2011 No.3414944 >>3413596 >What's next? Chinese pwnage.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 08:18:57 2011 No.3414962 >>3414934 "Spacey flyplanes."

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 08:26:57 2011 No.3414974 >>3414934 If you know what he means, then it hardly matters.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 08:26:57 2011 No.3414976 File: 47 KB, 200x337, ShuttleSponsored.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3413596 Some commercial operation, I suppose.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 08:28:57 2011 No.3414978 No James Webb? To blindly go where no man has gone before.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 08:29:57 2011 No.3414981 File: 187 KB, 658x428, Spacexdragon1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SpaceX, Bigelow Aerospace and ULA.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 08:31:57 2011 No.3414984 >>3413596 >What's next? For NASA? Mothballs. And funds redirected to military engagements.

Anonymous Tue Jul 19 09:15:57 2011 No.3415081
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What's next? Commercial crew to the ISS sometime around 2014-2015, assuming all goes well. SpaceX, Boeing, Sierra Nevada, and Blue Origin are in the race for providing crew transport services to the ISS, and presumably at least two of them will be selected to fly to the ISS.

Beyond that? Who knows. As of right now, NASA has no definitive plans for exploration beyond low Earth orbit. Obama directed them to visit an asteroid by 2025 and go to Mars maybe sometime in the 2030's, but as far as plans go, that's as weak as it can get. No definitive launch vehicle design has been selected as of yet, no payloads have been confirmed, and the only thing that's been confirmed is that the crew will be riding in the Orion capsule from the Constellation program, which is relatively close to completion.

Hopefully NASA headquarters will stop dragging their feet and actually announce something soon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 09:23:57 2011 No.3415108 Atlas V is going to be manrated: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/07/nasa-ula-saa-complete-human-rating-atlas-v/ >super-orbital beyond LEO / BEO / deep space

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 19 10:16:57 2011 No.3415300 >>3415108 >beyond LEO / BEO / deep space Sure is empty out there - astronauts going to mine us some space dust?

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