"Kevin" wrote in message
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"Tom Randy" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 03:07:11 +0000, Von Fourche wrote:



Is the Space Shuttle going to be replaced in the next ten years?
Is
NASA already working on their next generation space craft? How close
are
they to actually using it? Or will we be stuck with the current space
shuttle for the next twenty or thirty years?


They will phase it out in the next 5-10 years. What's next is anyone's
guess.


NASA have put out a request for proposals on the next generation of manned
spacecraft to be called the 'Crew Exploration Vehicle'. The program is
supposed to have aworking craft by 2014 for low earth orbit, and to go to
the moon in about 2020.



2020? Crap, didn't Kennedy announce going to the moon in '58 or '59?
And we went there within ten years? So we might be going back to the moon
in fifteen years? Sounds like the drive to go back to the moon is not
there. Sounds like NASA history is more exciting than NASA future. What do
we do? Support the Chinese going to the moon?