so whats gonna fly after shuttels?


nothing?

They'll still launch cell-phone satillites and other shit to spy on you, so I don't see what the big deal is.

>>51670410
Russian Soyuz will be ferrying USA Astronauts until a private space company (Probably SpaceX) develops a capsule for use by NASA. ETA is roughly 2015 for such a craft.

Yo Shuttle! I've been waiting for years! What took you so long&

>>51670440
GOOD LUCK!
IM BEHIND 7 MAGMA CHAMBERS

>>51670473
Been surviving on half a cent of every US Tax Dollar. Sorry you never got up to space, bro.

This isn't /g/.

>>51670514

>>51670514
You mean /sci/? Or even /v/? They've got a huge thread going.

>>51670510
Oh but I did bro. And also automatically landed, check it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

Aso YO DAWG WE HEARD YOU LIKE PLANES

>>51670552
I have seen at least 3 threads since we hit posting limits in the past 30 minutes.

>>51670564
Oh. Well, when I heard you were retired without a manned launch, I was crushed, and so were you.

>>51670601
>Buran
>crushed

>>51670601
>crushed

>>51670514
Oh, that picture was 'fixed'.

>>51670601
Well yeah, shit happens, but I still managed to buttsecks AN-225 so I'm totally ok with that.

>Watching nico stream
>All the sudden, SETH GREEN

>>51670657
It would've been nice to have you up there too, though, bro. It gets lonely up here...and ISS can be an ass.

Good riddance to the shuttle. It put some interesting things in orbit, but for the most part it's just been sucking NASA's dwindling budget dry for the last 30 years. My only hope is that the retards in Washington will stop changing NASA's mission every four years so we can get beyond LEO again.
>inb4 laughingwhores.jpg

>>51670695
Don't worry, our ancestors will have fun kicking aliens' asses together, I'm sure of it. And we, old wrecks, will look at them while drinking beer and gripping some boobs.

WOOOO! YEAH! SCIENCE!

>>51670793
I look forward to it.

Mission clock has started counting down, get in here.

Laggy as fuck.

Alternative channels?

>>51670757

Second. As much good as the shuttle has done it really wasn't the godsend we wanted or expected.

This is so exciting.

FIVE MINUTES! I'M ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT!

5 minutes!

This is my dream, to go to space as an astronaut... :'(

I can almost FEEL the SCIENCE!

If NASA establishes some sort of base on the moon, I'll be happy.

>>51670911
It'll be yours one day, anon. I have faith in you.

Holy shit, for real?

Watching.

Make it to Mars, valiant shuttle!

DOKI DOKI SURU

>>51670927
I'd say by the end of the century, we might have one. China will no doubt have the moon full of them though

>>51670927
The Chinese will be there first while USA is busy paying shitloads of cash for the Ruskies in order to keep the ISS operational.

>failure

can'tbehelped.jpg

An error?

-00:00:31

LOL

Fuck.

PROBLEM, HOUSTON?

>error

Time froze, CERN is around.

Here we go!

Well, that was a (hopefully) minor setback.

NASA needs more funds.

SOlID ROCKETS ENGAGEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Godspeed.

FUCK YES

>>51671197
That would be crazy, we need that money to bomb countries that don't hate us yet.

Awwww yeah.

Oh hai, guys.

We're in your space, reclaiming your moon.

>>51671239
hoho

I'm all for killing people but we need to make an amusement park on the Moon.
Have you seen the Moon? that motherfucker is moe~

;_;

Anyone else see that 'D' on the screen?

>>51671333

I missed me off more than anything in my entire life.

>>51671266
I have no problem with China having some fun in space too. This is a human endeavor, not just some patriotic shit.

>>51671333
ahhh, it's gone.

>>51671389
They must be listening in on us.

<- If not for just ONE explosive bolt failing, it would've been the first Reliant Robin in space.

http://www.topgearbox.com/2007/episode-guides/series-9/series-9-episode-4/

>>51671333
Oh my gosh yes. Was just about to post that.

so where is the oil tank go? stuck in space?

<- Hot Space Lesbians.

>>51671464
Yeah. It's space debris now.

When the main tank disconnected I bet it told the Shuttle "See you, space cowboy!".

>>51671464
Falls in ocean.

>>51671266
I'm rooting for the Chinese space program. Maybe if they start kicking ass up there, Americans will give a shit about space exploration again.

>>51671464
The orange fuel tanks usually stay in low orbit of the planet as space trash. If that's what you're asking.

We track this space trash constantly with computers and shit. anything we see that is bigger than a few mm is tracked and ID'd

>>51671520

>hits Bloop
>Bloop angry
>you won't like Bloop when he gets angry

I wonder if there is a chapter or two about golgo sniping down a shuttle.

You know, as interesting as I found this stuff beforehand, I was never all that "into" it. Yet now, this actually feels kinda sad.

I guess it's the end of an era for SCIENCE.

>>51671537
>we
>NASA on 4chan
Tell us the truth. Have you found any angels yet?

>>51671464
It's on a ballistic orbit. It will fall down to some unimportant country and kill a happy newly wed couple.

>>51671543

I lol'd

/r/ing gundam piggybacking shuttle QUALITY.

>>51671520
nope.png

The two side booster rockets fall back into the ocean and are recycled. The fuel tank becomes space trash

That's it, the end of an era. Never again will a Shuttle launch into space. For all its flaws and unfulfilled promises, I'm still sad to see it go.

>>51671537
No, they re-enter and break up over the indian ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_external_tan

>>51671598
We'll have to eventually. The world will get too overpopulated, and we'll have to split up to different planets that can house life.

Why are there so many Japanese in chat?

Not that I mind...

I think I have something in my eye. Oh. That's tears. That is definitely tears. Thanks for making me aware of this OP. Good luck and godspeed to NASA.

>>51671633

It isn't about overpopulation, that can practically never happen. It's all about resources.

>>51671658
i hope we'll have that crisis which will eventually lead to our glorious space age.

>>51671672
Or we kill ourselves off a la Planetarian ;_;

>>51671464

>oil tank
>oil

lrn2aeronautics.

Then you wonder why China already has the most powerful supercomputer on the planet (Tianhe 1-A), is way ahead of the US in gene research (no GOP/Religious Right there; in Soviet China, God worships YOU!), and they're set to overtake the US in scientific R&D in just two years?

>>51671633
Oh, we'll definitely be going back to space, we just won't be using Shuttles to get there.

>>51671649
Wouldn't surprise me if they're all from 2chan.

Nah theres still Russia.

And it'll start up again once you Americunts stop being in so much debt

>>51671695
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what's the alternative?

>>51670757
True facts. It was a horribly compromised design-by-committee mess that achieved none of the things it was supposed to, other than (eventually) building the ISS, which is also retarded.

http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm

It's still a little sad to see it go being that it's being replaced with "lol I guess we'll hitch a ride on Soyuz", though. If that Brown university report that the post-9/11 wars have cost about 4 TRILLION dollars is anything close to the truth, we could surely have a permanent lunar base and have done a manned Mars landing by now, if only the will was there.

>>51671625
Depends on how deep the shuttle mission is, such as the shuttle mission to repair the Hubble didn't separate it's tank for a long time. Not every eternal tank has reentered the atmosphere

>>51671717
Death star.
Enterprise.

So I was waiting for this all morning with nothing else to do until about 11:15 at which point it was made clear to me that I had been remiss in my duties in reading the minds of the people who had things for me to do but could not be bothered to tell me. They further impressed upon me the urgency of the tasks at hand, leading me to do a half hour of work and ultimately missing the one thing I had wanted to see today: seeing the last shuttle launch live.

One more end of an era to chalk up under "Missed for stupid shit".

>>51671691
Chinese PHD's are rife with plagiarism and other poor academic practice. Sauce on your estimates for Chinese R&D stats?

Sage for general Chinese and not cartoons.

>>51671717
Space Shuttles are just what we call those particular reusable rockets. We're developing other rockets with higher payload potential (that could possibly pave the way for colonisation or terraforming), but in the meantime, I think American astronauts will be piggybacking with the Russians.

>>51671717
Good old-fashioned heavy lift rockets. They work and can be made somewhat safe via launch escape systems. Maybe scaled dynamics rocket plane things for LEO.

>>51671717
Obviously we'll be riding ICBMs up there with our Gundams.

>>51671717

we'll be evolved to the point where we can shed our corporeal and travel space as pure energy