So it's space station or nothing, it seems right now, for the space shuttle program.
Many of the departing workers have worked on the shuttle program since its beginning.
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The space shuttle program cost more and was less safe than the Apollo missions that preceded it.
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Then what had once transfixed the world became increasingly routine, especially after NASA successfully launched the space shuttle program.
The shuttle program will always be dear to my heart and the final return of Atlantis is a bittersweet moment.
It's expected as the shuttle program comes to an end that more than 9, 000 shuttle workers will lose their jobs.
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Endeavour, along with Discovery, Enterprise and Atlantis, became a museum piece after NASA ended its 30-year shuttle program in July 2011.
The bill authorizes an additional shuttle launch, extending the retirement date of the shuttle program from February 2011 until June 2011.
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Florida's request comes as NASA is working to revamp the Kennedy Space Center following the end of the shuttle program last year.
Unlike the old Shuttle program, which had launches a few times a year, scientists could use SpaceShip Two to conduct several experiments a week.
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Due to the transitions in the NASA Space Shuttle program based in Brevard, thousands of aerospace engineers are unemployed and looking for new opportunities.
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My understanding is that Shuttle job reductions have been the result of NASA efforts to streamline the Shuttle program, not because of Station budget issues.
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The past few decades, however, have seen a fading of such romantic pursuits, a phenomenon no better illustrated than with the end of NASA's shuttle program.
Rafael San Miguel began his career at NASA working on the Space Shuttle program, and has spent the past 23 years as a scientist for The Coca-Cola Company.
Just this past month, Vincent finally got permission to shoot in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, home of the soon-to-be-closed space shuttle program, and Vincent's holy grail.
There are many people who think that just because the shuttle program has ended that space exploration has come to a halt, but just the opposite is true.
It was bittersweet to visit NASA while workers were getting their layoff notices and the shuttle program, with all its attendant promise and tragedy, was in its final days.
This plan extended the space shuttle program, put in place a robust commercial space initiative and has put us on track to send American astronauts further into space than ever before.
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Apollo's successor, the Space Shuttle program, failed to capture America's imagination, or attention, except in 1986, when Challenger blew up, killing seven, and in 2003, when Columbia disintegrated on reentry, killing another seven.
As Endeavour bid farewell to Kennedy Space Center, it elicited strong emotions from people -- such as CNN iReporter Randy Lathrop of Cocoa, Florida -- who have lived with the shuttle program nearby for decades.
"I am excited to see this, but I am also saddened that the shuttle program has ended and there is nothing in place for the next steps in space, " said Terry Dunn, 64, of Tuxedo, N.
However, what I still could do was work on the Space Shuttle program as a scientist where my work developing food for astronauts involved a project to send the first can of Coca-Cola into outer space.
The SLS rocket will incorporate technological investments from the Space Shuttle program and the Constellation program in order to take advantage of proven hardware and cutting-edge tooling and manufacturing technology that will significantly reduce development and operations costs.
This was a condition for which NASA bore principal responsibility insofar as it was determined to dominate the launch industry with the shuttle program and, consequently, sought to curtail all commercial ventures by controlling U.S. production of expendable boosters.
Behnken has inherited the position at a time of transition for the astronaut corps, as NASA looks beyond its retired space shuttle program toward hiring U.S. companies to fly its crews on private spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
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