Astronaut Mass Exodus coming

With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.

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With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.


No.

On Jun 20, 2:36�pm, " wrote:
With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.

what makes anyone think the pork piggie will ever fly?

shuttle retirement date will be pushed back. and new manned launcher
redsigned to use existing boosters.

the solids were a bad idea from day one.......

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With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.


No.

I don't see why not.

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With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.


No.

I don't see why not.

They're already busy in developing Orion. Astronaut is a big word -
remember that John Young was never described as a "former astronaut" while
he was with NASA; most astronauts spend their time either training for an
upcoming mission or on other duties - it doesn't take nine years to train an
astronaut how to be an astronaut, but many astronauts have waited that long
for a flight - they do other things in 'the program' in the mean time. That
will be the case for the 2010-2014/15 time frame.

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With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.


No.

I don't see why not.


Also, there wasn't a mass exodus after Apollo; that happened during Apollo,
especially for the scientist/astronauts. There was even an Apollo astronaut
who was born in Australia (Peterson?). Many Apollo astronauts went on to
work in the Shuttle program - Crippen and Young are two examples, but
Crippen wasn't originally an Apollo astronaut - he was from MOL. If they
stay around, they won't be short of work, just short of flight opportunities
for a couple of years.

I'd imagine this depends on whether they feel engaged enough in what they
are doing and why. They seem to have been leaving quite a lot of late from
what I hear.

Brian

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With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.

On Jun 21, 5:49 am, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
I'd imagine this depends on whether they feel engaged enough in what they
are doing and why. They seem to have been leaving quite a lot of late from
what I hear.

Brian

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With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.

With the quantity of astronauts on duty, there are a limited number of
flight available. Some have already flown so will go on to other
pursuits. Others who have not flown will likely have the patience to
wait out the hiatus after the shuttle retires. The same thing happened
after ASTP in 1975.

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:36:02 -0700 (PDT), "
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With the winding down of shuttle ops, will we soon see a mass exodus
of longer-term shuttle astronauts who don't want to wait for 2014/2015
to fly again at the earliest.

There is still the International Space Station.

Brian

I would guess it would all depend if the current astronaut corps has
private opinions on whether that CEV thing will really fly or not. If
there are feelings that it will be cancelled, as have all other shuttle
replacement programmes, then once the shuttle is retired, I suspect many
will retire with it.

Note that a year ago, NASA hired a new bunch of astronauts. Those might
stick around long enough, doing office work or whatever, until NASA has
a viable human space programme again.

If the CEV thing really does materialise, then this new bunch of
astronauts will become the new core since by then, a big part of the
shuttle astronauts will have become near retirement age.