NASA. space shuttle?

Question

when the space shuttle is retire in 2010 what will be used to bring astronauts back and forth to the nation space station? what if a satellite needs to be repaired?

Answer 1

they're making a new shurrle

Answer 2

The new Orion capsule will  take astronauts to the space station, but it will not be ready by the time the shuttle retires in 2010.  Soyuz capsules launched from Russia will fulfill the need in the mean time.  After the Hubble servicing mission takes place (very soon), the shuttle will no longer be used for any servicing missions, but rather finishing the assembly of the International Space Station.  Progress capsules and Jules Verne-like ATVs will serve as cargo ships to keep the station well supplied and give it the occasional boost into a higher orbit.  

Answer 3

the new ships look like airplanes... the reason they are going to be retaired is because there are $$$$....

and killing alins from outer space is really expensive too

Answer 4

I think the japanese have the answer that Nasa is looking at

Answer 5

I believe NASA is making a new module. Much more advanced.

Answer 6

The Shuttle was used to fix exactly one satellite. As much as anything, it was a technology and capability demonstration. It worked. After the Challenger disaster, they decided that risking astronauts for this sort of thing was not worth it.  Of course, they're still going to service the Hubble Space Telescope.  And that's the final servicing mission.  When HST dies, in 2013 or so (well after the end of the world if you believe some people), it's dead.  We'll have to launch something else.

After shuttle retirement, the Russian rockets can still be used.  And, they're much safer than the Shuttle.  Maybe Europe will start launching astronauts.  Who knows?

Answer 7

NASA has been working on a project called "Constellation" which will replace the current space shuttle program;

however the Constellation program has been put on hold because President Bush wants to focus NASA's budget on another manned lunar landing like Apollo to prepare for a possible manned landing on Mars.

Which I think is sort of arbitrary :) We already PUT a man up there, why do we need another??