Shuttle Retirement Ushers In New Era -- BBC
The cheers and the tears. The Atlantis shuttle returned from space on Thursday, book-ending the 135-flight sequence of Nasa's re-usable spaceplanes.
People will debate long and hard on the value of the shuttle. There's no denying its iconography; its story is inextricably linked with that of Hubble; and it gave us the space station.
And as Valerie Neal, the space history curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, points out in her assessment article for the BBC, the shuttle made possible "our continual, expanding presence in space".
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My Comment: The end of America's shuttle program/space program .... and this is essence what it has become .... is a sad day for America and for those who have followed NASA (myself included) since the beginning.
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