http://www.podculture.com/2010/02/15/podculture-194-the-one-take-wonder-show/ Equal Opportunity Geekness Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:27:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.podculture.com/2010/02/15/podculture-194-the-one-take-wonder-show/comment-page-1/#comment-8194 Bill from Albuquerque Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:59:10 +0000 http://www.podculture.net/2010/02/15/podculture-194-the-one-take-wonder-show/#comment-8194 Hi guys, love the show. Just wanted to let you know that they are retiring the shuttle because they can't get parts for most of the systems anymore. The shuttle program was green lighted while we were watching astronauts roaming the moon in 1969. We didn't see the first shuttle, Enterprise, until 1976 and Columbia was first launched on April 12, 1981. In fact, on Columbia's last 2 or 3 missions, NASA had taken some parts from Enterprise and had to go onto eBay for some of the computer parts needed because no one made them anymore. While it would be nice if they could have waitied until April 12, 2011 to retire the fleet (the 30th Anniversary of Columbia's first lauch), I can why the fleet is being retired. It would have been nice if they could have been looking to innovate the shuttle style for a longer range flight to the Moon to deliver equipment for a Moon base and for launching flights to the rest of the Solar System for a start, but now we're going to be too dependent on Russia to get us to the Space Station and back in something that makes Apollo look modern. The equivalent technology would be like running the Internet on an Apple I, or if you did a minor upgrade, a Commodore 64 and if you went really high tech, a Radio Shack TRS80, Model 1, all with a 300baud modem. Hi guys, love the show. Just wanted to let you know that they are retiring the shuttle because they can’t get parts for most of the systems anymore. The shuttle program was green lighted while we were watching astronauts roaming the moon in 1969. We didn’t see the first shuttle, Enterprise, until 1976 and Columbia was first launched on April 12, 1981. In fact, on Columbia’s last 2 or 3 missions, NASA had taken some parts from Enterprise and had to go onto eBay for some of the computer parts needed because no one made them anymore. While it would be nice if they could have waitied until April 12, 2011 to retire the fleet (the 30th Anniversary of Columbia’s first lauch), I can why the fleet is being retired. It would have been nice if they could have been looking to innovate the shuttle style for a longer range flight to the Moon to deliver equipment for a Moon base and for launching flights to the rest of the Solar System for a start, but now we’re going to be too dependent on Russia to get us to the Space Station and back in something that makes Apollo look modern. The equivalent technology would be like running the Internet on an Apple I, or if you did a minor upgrade, a Commodore 64 and if you went really high tech, a Radio Shack TRS80, Model 1, all with a 300baud modem.

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