The Space Shuttle "Discovery" is now back home on US soil after it's final flight into space. The space shuttle will now be retired and later will go to it's new home at the Smithsonian Institution Museum.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/sp ... ttle_N.htmThe other two remaining space shuttles "Atlantis" and "Endeavour" will make their final space flights later this year, before they two will be officially retired.
This is a sad ending to this era of space shuttle flights. It just won't be the same not seeing them take-off and land anymore and see their transmissions from space, etc.
I'm not exactly sure where the space program is going from here.
It sounds as if anyone wanting to go to the International Space Station will now have to depend on the Russians or some other way of getting there. That just doesn't seem right to me.
Will anyone else miss the space shuttles?
What do you think should happen next in the subject of space exploration?
Comments or Opinions?