I still enjoy the possibilities of space travel, and figure that everything will have it’s own dark ages. But my belief, as dogmatic as it may sound, suggests that there are still better future space technology developments to come.
This taxpayer is thrilled! NASA has become a huge, wasteful government agency just like all the rest. How much money have we spent to find out whethere newts breed in space and in making sure that every possible ethnicity has been represented in the shuttle program?
NASA was once an amazing agency, but now, anyone who would board a government rocket is a much braver person than I am. Government eventually ruins everything it touches.
Bittersweet?!?
It is the unoffical END of Space Exploration for years. The people who are leaving NASA will take with them generations of knowledge; that cannot be immediately replaced.
After the shuttle returns, we will have NO space program - at all. Nothing. Zero has killed American space exploration efforts. It will take years to regain what he has thrown away.
Ping.
That’s one huge waste of money over with.
Why so glum, chum? Now we can devote all of NASA's energies to making Muslims feel good about themselves, despite their remarkable lack of contributions to science and technology (unless you count improved efficiencies in suicide vests and intestinal explosives).
Pathetic.
Money for genocidal mohammedan savages, but none for research.
The amount of economic activity, medical discoveries, and technical innovations fostered by the Space Program was unprecedented.
As long as we have leaders whose greatest vision is to enslave and control the populace, we never will see such scientific achievment in this country again.
Sadness? You’re kidding, right? I couldn’t be happier. The shittle single-handedly killed US manned spaceflight. Lets spend billions upon billions to go up 300 miles for 30 years. YIPEE!!!!
I’m sad it’s taken this long to retire it. Too bad the US Government doesn’t have the stones to replace it with something that is forward thinking.
If you ever want to see a shuttle in the future don’t come to Houston, the city where it all started. obama screwed another red state. What I’d like to know is what gave him the authority to make this decision?
We put Americans back in charge, instead of RINOs,Commies and worthless Third world Animals,maybe we can once again do something.
It 's called "Getting even with Whitey."
The sadness should not be for the shuttle program. The sadness should be there is nothing new.
Democrats, Luddite progressives are to blame. Crack babies from single mom leg spreaders trump space exploration.