Now if you consider the array of things the Shuttle could do & compare to Soyuz , it is mindboggeling , yet we should have massive outrage on the shuttle retirement, but there is very little. Even with ex NASA people, you hear very little!! Even Ast. Williams , you would think would be speaking out.
No plans to regain our capability. Such a shame, we should be flying shuttle today!!
Look at landing pics of exp. 48 !! On blog.
Please write your reps & senators about this outrage!!
Re exp 48--- ast. Williams
Interestingly, the 58-year-old Williams has seen all aspects of the construction of the ISS. His first mission, aboard shuttle Atlantis in May 2000, saw him perform an EVA when the infant space station comprised just two pressurized modules. Six years later, in 2006, he flew for six months on Expedition 13, as the program recovered from the Columbia disaster and construction resumed with a new set of power-producing solar arrays. Then, in the fall of 2009, he launched a third time, arriving aboard a station whose long-duration crew had doubled from three to six members. And in more recent years, as the ISS settled into the operational, "utilization" phase of its life, he secured the record for the most seasoned U.S. astronaut of all time.
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