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Yes quite an amazing time lapse.
Don't forget to mark your calendar for the last ever Shuttle Mission this year! To my knowledge there are no projects in hand new independant soace vehicles like the shuttle - just commercial payload rockets with 1960s technology.
I have grey hair (well a bit left like some of you) and very fortunate to have listened to John Kennedy's speach in high school, then watch the massive Apollo and shuttle programs develop.
Now all that amazing engineering at the Kennedy Space Center may well slowly rust away. My family were fortunate to visit KSC in 1995 and watch a Shuttle move to the launch pad and a routine satellite launch that day.
The facility and the museum exhibits are still worth the visit, but next year it will no longer be same. Perhaps our kids think of space travel as a bus service rather than the pioneering adventure of my lifetime.
So the political will to invest billions on deeper space travel is no longer attractive, or since the GFC possible.
What do our younger members think of manned space exploration?
David
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