2007-08-30 15:23:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
What do you mean by Shuttle? If you mean the Space Shuttle owned and operated (but not actually built) by NASA, never. NASA's space shuttles (all 3 flight capable ones, anyway) will be retired in 2010. The replacement may be flying by '15 or '16, but that will not be a Shuttle, per say. It will be a capsule, looking more like what was used in the Apollo program, than it will the Shuttle. It will be called the Orion capsule, and it will ride into space on the Ares 1 launch vehicle. It will not look as pretty, but hopefully it will cost less than the 600 million USD per launch that the Shuttle does.
2007-08-30 15:39:34 · answer #1 · answered by Solarsail 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess that might start when some other country starts building Space Shuttles. The russians didn't exactly copy ours.
2007-08-30 23:51:17 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Next Thursday at around nine-ish. Bring the kids!
2007-08-30 22:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe, kind of. They are already planning rocket powered air races.
2007-08-30 22:37:39 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well in a way we did we beat everyone to the moon.
2007-08-31 00:01:05 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋