"Double-A" wrote in message
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Von Fourche wrote:
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"Tom Randy" wrote in message
news 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?


The future ain't what it used to be!

Double-A



I have an nice moon atlas book. The author talks about the missions to
the moon and things and says there has been so much data/samples collected
from the moon that it will take decades to study it all and that's one
reason why trips to the moon has stopped.

Would you agree?