{"id":7222,"date":"2011-07-08T10:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T17:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2011-07-08T15:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T22:13:18","slug":"u-s-effectively-abandons-human-space-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/07\/08\/u-s-effectively-abandons-human-space-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Effectively Abandons Human Space Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So the United States today launched its last space shuttle mission ever<\/a>, leaving the task of supporting the International Space Station to Russia, a country ruled for all intents and purposes by a dictator.<\/p>\n

NASA, along with its international partners, apparently thought it would be a good idea to build a space station and then retire its fleet of transport vehicles without any replacement in existence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In about a week, after the final shuttle flight lands, the United States will no longer have the technical ability to put a single human being into earth orbit.<\/p>\n

How’s that for leadership in technology and science?\u00a0 That’s your current president at work who was supposed to possess some magical form of science awareness.<\/p>\n

Onward presses NASA with its plan to privatize space station supply launches… sometime… perhaps… in the next five years.<\/p>\n

The shuttle was expensive to operate and sometimes dangerous, but it was a successful machine.\u00a0 No such thing exists now.\u00a0 Typically, when I’m ready to replace my automobile I go buy the new one first.\u00a0 Then I bring it home, park it in the driveway and think about how best to dispose of the old clunker.\u00a0 That’s how it works with me.\u00a0 I’m just sayin’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the United States today launched its last space shuttle mission ever, leaving the task of supporting the International Space Station to Russia, a country ruled for all intents and purposes by a dictator. NASA, along with its international partners, apparently thought it would be a good idea to build a space station and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1705,319],"tags":[1974,1973,184,398],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel","category-technology","tag-international-space-station","tag-launch","tag-nasa","tag-shuttle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t