Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!grissom.larc.nasa.gov!bjax From: bjax@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: After Endeavour, what then? Message-ID: <1991May5.122325.24559@news.larc.nasa.gov> Date: 5 May 91 12:23:25 GMT References: <346.281f448d@mwk.uucp> <1991May3.120004.12584@pbs.org> <1991May4.213743.7574@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@news.larc.nasa.gov (USENET Network News) Reply-To: bjax@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Jackson) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center Lines: 19 In article <1991May4.213743.7574@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1991May3.120004.12584@pbs.org> pstinson@pbs.org writes: >>... it will not be the last space shuttle to go into service. Space >>Station Freedom will eventually be visited by a new generation of space >>shuttle... > >Freedom will be in a museum, or in pieces strewn over Australia :-), before >NASA gets funding to build a second-generation shuttle. Funding is decided by Congress; but you might be interested to know NASA- Langley is developing a "space taxi" based on lifting body technology that is capable of carrying up to ten people to low earth orbit. If funding for further development is approved, we could be on the road to a shuttle adjunct, that could serve as the "lifeboat" for the space station. -- Bruce Jackson NASA Langley Research Center MS 489, Hampton, VA 23665 (804) 864-4060