Final Shuttle Landing Just Hours Away

On the eve of NASA's historic, wheel-stopping end to the shuttle program, the four astronauts making the final journey and the flight controllers who will guide them home said Wednesday they're starting to feel a rush of emotions.

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• Shuttle

[jordanselko]

To be truthful this makes me way more sad then the whole Casey Anthony crap.

[fellerredseller]

why the hell can't they go to moon more often?



[MyCobragirl]

GLAD IT'S OVER...WASTE OF MONEY....BUY LEARNING MATERIALS FOR THESE FAILING SCHOOLS OF AMERICA....DEMOCRACKKKS....

[MyCobragirl]

@2xtream here here!!!

[2xtream]

@obsydiandreams Cuts are what is needed. But you to, you heard "Eliminate" which is not what was said. So who is the moron? Some O'Dumbocrat that only hears what they want. Yes we need to CUT the Military as America can NOT afford to be the worlds police... Time for you to understand basic economics same for O'Dumbo... We cut those programs fist before we begin to even think about cutting basic needs of Americans in our homeland. NO Americans don't need to spend Billions on NASA's Dreams atm

[hitssquad]

@JohnQuincyAdams1 "For every $1 of taxpayer money spent on NASA space exploration, the taxpayer gets a return of $13."

How?

[MrJerkinp]

@hitssquad Your right its each mission and the cost is far more less. In 2011, the incremental cost per flight of the Space Shuttle was estimated at $450 million not billion. When all design and maintenance costs are taken into account, the final cost of the Space Shuttle program, averaged over all missions and adjusted for inflation, was estimated to come out to $1.5 billion per launch.

[rebelnomo]

This is so terrible that we can spend billions upon billions on wars, social programs, and countless other money pits that are little better than useless, but we're stopping this.

[rebelnomo]

@thekiller678 He personally didn't slaughter countless Indians. And all you people who say he didn't discover the Americas are idiots. When they say he discovered the Americas it's because he was the first explorer to make it there and then come back to tell Europa about it. He was the man who opened up the Americas for exploration. No one before did that on a world wide scale. What happened after that, the slaughter of Indians, was done by the Spanish, Portuguese, and countless others.

[asus3571]

if people noticed it was stated that it would be the last low orbit explorations its not over they will need to go farther and they will thers no way the us will give up space its to much of a stratigic place for us

[obsydiandreams]

@VoLCoMzYaDiGG Sir Richard Branson. All I have to say about that. :D

[obsydiandreams]

@tradernorton05 Agreed. With every once of everything in my body.