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Posted by : Ray Plumlee in (Space Travel Talk)

Countdown To The End Of American Manned Space Travel Has Begun

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Space Shuttle Launching From Cape Canaveral Florida

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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