Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

After the cancellation of NASA’s Constellation program, a plan to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the Solar System, and the launch today of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the countdown to the end of Americas manned space travel has begun.

With only 5 more scheduled Shuttle Missions left (see summary below) before the retirement of the Space Shuttle and now no follow on manned space travel program is planned or in the budget. The last acts of America’s supremacy in space are about to be played.

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If you haven’t heard already NASA’s mission is no longer manned space travel. With the decision to cancel the Constellation program there is no longer a plan for manned space flight for the United States.

NASA’s Project Constellation, was a plan to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the Solar System.

Canceling NASA’s Moon-bound Constellation program is expected to cost the U.S. space agency $2.5 billion in contract termination liability and other closeout costs over the next two years. Add to that the $9 billion already spent developing the Orion crew vehicle and Ares rockets the total cost for a program that will never be completed is over $11.5 billion. All for nothing.

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NASA announced today, January 26, 2010, that the Mars Rover Spirit is no longer a rover. For nearly ten months now the little rover has been stuck with two of its six wheels inoperative. The decision was made, with regret I am sure, to give up trying to remove Spirit from her rut. NASA has made the decision to discontinue their 10 month attempt to get her back in motion.

NASA has re-designated Spirit a “Stationary Research Platform.” Here at Spacemen’s Luck we have decided to Call Spirit “Mars Base One.”

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