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Lawmakers Pressure NASA to Delay Shuttle’s Retirement

The faltering economy threatens to disrupt plans to retire the U.S. space-shuttle fleet next year and free up funds to develop a new generation of manned spacecraft.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992911190127639.html

SPLAT !!*#$%^!!

NASA's Shuttle Successor Fails Parachute Test:

A mock-up of NASA's Orion space shuttle successor twisted, tumbled and fell from thousands of feet up after a parachute failed to inflate properly during a July 31 test.

Video at YouTube.

NASA Developing New Space Duds

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Astronaut apparel has evolved over the decades from 1960s-era aluminum foil-style outfits to the bulky, 275-pound whites now used on jaunts outside the space station. NASA engineers at Houston's Johnson Space Center are hard at work on updating the look even further.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/23/new.spacesuits.ap/

Cutbacks May Delay Lunar Landings

NASA administrator Michael Griffin testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on 28 February 2007, saying that recent budget cutbacks could push the first Project Constellation missions into 2015, increasing the gap between the Shuttle and Orion programs.

We don't want to wind up without manned spaceflight capability, like we were between Apollo and Shuttle! Let's go, Congress - someone will colonize the moon and Mars, it might as well be us!