Shuttle Retirement Is Not the End of Human Spaceflight. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. So the nation is not abandoning human spaceflight, despite a pervasive public perception to the contrary, he said. That retirement will come after the shuttle Atlantis' STS- 1. That sort of collaboration between NASA and the private sector underscores where the nation's human spaceflight program is going, Bolden said. The agency recently awarded four companies — Sierra Nevada, Space. X, Blue Origins and Boeing — a total of $2.
Commercial Crew Development program. That dependence on the United States' former space- race rival will likely last four or five years. The Best Spaceships of All Time. The agency has been charged with getting astronauts to an asteroid by 2. Mars by the mid- 2. Orion was originally developed under former President George W.
Bush's moon- oriented Constellation program, which President Barack Obama cancelled last year. The agency hopes to make a final decision on this rocket, known as the Space Launch System (SLS), by the end of the summer, officials announced today. That process should be over soon, NASA associate administrator Lori Garver told reporters here. Follow SPACE. com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
Shuttle Atlantis' final crew, commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, stand in front of the orbiter as it rolls out to the launch pad one last time. Credit: collectSPACE/Robert Z. Pearlman With NASA retiring its space shuttle program after.
Constellation relegated to the dustbin and the future of American spaceflight resting on the shoulders of the private sector. Hernandez said the new candidates were fully aware when they applied that the shuttle program would be ending soon, and. Administrator Sean O'Keefe declared that all future flights of the shuttle would go to the ISS. The Space Shuttle program was extended several times beyond its originally envisioned 15-year life span because of the delays in building the United into.
Russian rockets will be astronauts only ride to space for a while Endeavour Commander Kelly wants to return to space again The shuttle will carry a $1.5 billion spectrometer into space Astronauts will prepare the space station for life after the shuttle program. Young people to study maths and sciences, to explore the cosmos and to create even better spaceships in the future. The goal the Shuttle program did not achieve was the routine access to space and quick ground servicing and turnaround that would The.