As most of us know, NASA’s manned spaced operations have
been cut. Although optimism still remains for the future, the current cost
seemed unfeasible to executives. Now you may be thinking what will happen to
all the shuttles? I’ve just read an article published in the Chicago Tribune
which explains the future homes of a few of the crafts. The article tells how
many are currently being flown to various cities in the United States to be rolled
into museums for display. This all seems a bit ironic to me. These titans of
technology, explorers of the unknown are now being sealed inside of museums.
The way the shuttles are getting there is actually quite
impressive. They’ll be flown there via “piggy backing” on a regular jet-engine
airplane. The article talks about a shuttle headed to New York City and how it
took a specific route past the Statue of Liberty and over the George Washington
Bridge. I wish I was there when it flew over these landmarks. If I was there I’m
sure I would have felt a surge of patriotism. Here you stand on a bridge named
after one of our founding fathers, looking at the statue of liberty and all it
represents and then suddenly a jet flies over with a space shuttle on top.
Honestly, it had to be a breath-taking experience to of been there to see it happen.
More occurrences like this have already been planned and
performed. Reading about happenings like this reassures my faith in this
country, the people and our economic state. Although NASA has cut manned
missions to space they do plan on returning to the future, but this time in
more technologically advanced crafts which can carry astronauts to farther
distances more safely. Who knows what will be parading around our skies two hundred
years from now.
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