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Sign up. Read the Shopping Essentials newsletter for unbiased, unsponsored product recommendations every week. Read the Shopping Essentials newsletter for unbiased product recommendations every week. Manage Print Subscription. The shuttle commander is to be veteran astronaut Rick "C. Once the Discovery mission is complete, just six more shuttle flights remain before NASA's three shuttles are retired in September The ISS is a project jointly run by 16 countries at a cost of billion dollars -- largely financed by the United States.
Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning. Take international news everywhere with you! Download the France 24 app. Butretirement for the space shuttles simply means the start of their lives in thepublic eye. All three orbiters?
Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour? NASA's two othershuttles, Challenger and Columbia, were tragically lost in accidents in and , respectively. So, was it a technical problem or a political problem? I could argue both sides. NASA is retiring its three remaining space shuttles to focus on future missions to an asteroid and eventually Mars. Meanwhile, the private sector has been charged with developing spacecraft to reach the International Space Station and other possible destinations in low-Earth orbit.
Until then, there will be a gap in American spaceflight similar to the years between the end of the Apollo moon program and the inception of the space shuttles, said NASA's deputy chief Lori Garver. Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis could continue to fly beyond given the appropriate funds, but some experts agree that the vehicles' retirement is necessary to pave the way for the construction of more-sophisticated spacecraft, including ones to explore farther out into the solar system.
I think a lot of people would say it has probably left.
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