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Atlantis in Space


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Yep, it took off for its last time forever. :(

So what are they building next to go into space?

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Marks the end of an era....However I see it as a great thing for NASA.

The Space Shuttle was a very expensive program and with that money now out of the budget that frees up a lot of money to be used in other areas like:

-$923 million increase (638% increase) in robotics

-$1.2 billion increase (113% increase) in new space technologies

-$1.7 billion increase (11% increase) in planetary Science

-$2.1 billion increase (220% increase) in exploration technology

-$2.7 billion increase (27% increase) in climate science

That is a lot of money freed up to be used in other new initiatives, and to be honest the Shuttle was a hugely expensive machine that only took us a very short distance into space...it is time to go much further.

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