This is sickening!
Unparalleled American technology prematurely and hastily retired by OBAMA and placed harmlessly in museums for the world to see how exceptional America once was!
Did you know that United Space Alliance (USA) submitted a proposal to fly the shuttles as a commercial service for NASA?
It was rejected by OBAMA... twice!
http://m.space.com/11391-nasa-space-shuttles-commercial-proposal-nss27.html
Long Shot: NASA Contractor Could Keep Flying Space Shuttles
Denise Chow, SPACE.com staff writer
Date: 14 April 2011 Time: 02:53 PM ET
An early morning scene at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39, with the space shuttle Columbia in position on Pad 39A at right in March 1981. The shuttle launched into space on April 12, 1981.
CREDIT: NASA
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – While NASA is already planning the particulars of how to retire its space shuttles —– including announcing this week which museums will get to display them — a bid to continue flying the orbiters as a commercial service is still in the works, even if it is considered a long shot, SPACE.com has learned.
United Space Alliance (USA), a prime NASA contractor, is working on a plan to commercially fly the Atlantis and Endeavour space shuttles twice a year following the construction of a new external fuel tank.
The idea was first discussed in February but did not seem to gain much traction. Still, USA is not giving up.
"We're not done yet — we're probably almost done, but we have another shot at it, so we're going to address it one more time," Dan Brandenstein, USA executive vice president and former astronaut, told SPACE.com here at the 27th National Space Symposium.
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