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Message: <blockquote data-quote="metrix2" data-source="post: 10122934" data-attributes="member: 316068">The final countdown: After the space rush, where now for Nasa? The space shuttle dream is over: from now on, Nasa will have to ask Russia for a lift to the Space Station. Live reports on the ghosts left behind in an American too broke to go chasing the Moon <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04CF4200000578-930_634x387.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> After three decades, a cost of more than £100 billion and the loss of 14 astronauts in the Challenger and Columbia disasters, the space shuttle programme is ending because it is too expensive and too unreliable <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D5AE00000578-558_634x286.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Discovery's final launch at Kennedy Space Center on February 24, 2011. Staggeringly, each shuttle launch costs nearly £1 billion <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D2EE00000578-21_306x423.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> A souvenir shop at Kennedy Space Cente <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D03E00000578-309_634x378.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> British astronaut Michael Foale, a veteran of six space shuttle missions, has logged the most time in space of any UK citizen (374 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes) <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D47500000578-874_634x386.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> One of the many properties for sale on the Space Coast <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D24900000578-613_634x419.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The Orbit Cafe at Kennedy Space Center <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D53300000578-79_306x221.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Food and water for the astronauts <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D10A00000578-280_634x596.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Visitors pose with an astronaut at the Kennedy Space Center <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D3A700000578-127_634x422.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> A decommissioned launch pad. Roughly 7,000 people will lose their jobs when Atlantis lands for the final time and, for the first time in decades, America will have no manned space rocket programme <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1385970-0C04D4E500000578-782_634x307.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Endeavour on the launch pad before the cancelled mission of April 29 this year නාසා එක වහලා දායිද?<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/confused.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" data-shortname=":confused:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/confused.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" data-shortname=":confused:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/confused.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" data-shortname=":confused:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/confused.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:" data-shortname=":confused:" />IF U LIKE IT REP+<img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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