Thread: The moon is the door to the solar system
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2010-05-16 , 18:31
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Originally Posted by Dollyknot View Post
The shuttle has been cancelled, Atlantis is flying her last mission, so NASA disagrees with you that the shuttle is a viable concept, if it were viable, they would be building new shuttles.
Actually... NASA wants to expand to asteroids, the moon, and mars.

Unfortunately, the Space Shuttle was designed specifically to be a complete bad-***** in LEO (Low Earth Orbit). The shuttle isn't capable of leaving LEO. So you can't go to the moon in a shuttle.

NASA needs a new vehicle, which Lockheed is working on (Orion). Problem is, the government won't give NASA enough money for both. So we are retiring the shuttles so we can spend that money on spacecraft that can leave LEO and go to places like the moon or mars.