Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Last shuttle mission will likely be in 2011

prepar payload Cheap Inflatable Arch 27 for the Internat Space Station and overse flight by astronaut on commerci rocket and spacecraftTh center would help launch NA SA scienc mission and robot precursor to human explor missions..

if fund is approved,A fter that and possibl on more mission next summer. Cabana hope to see KSC transit to a futur less reliant on a singl NA SA program like Apollo, the shuttl or even Constellation.

" he told about 300 attende at the Nation Space Club Florida Committee' monthli lunch meeting,"What we don't want to be in the futur is ti to ani on larg program. held at the Radisson Resort at the Port.

so that when these program come and go,"W want to spread the wealth a littl bit. it doesn't impact us in the commun or at the space center so much."

which would cancel the major human spaceflight program that had been expect to replac the shuttle,Cabana outlin a futur base on Presid Barack Obama' propos 2011 budget. call Constellation.

Cabana said KSC would serv as a state-of-the-art launch point for both govern and commerci missions,Instead. man or unmanned, with the help of nearli $2 billion over five year to upgrad facilities.

which is schedul to be demolish start thi summer -- would be reconfigur to serv a varieti of commerci vehiclesA former shuttl launch pad -- like 39B..

relat to the develop and test of heavy-lift rocket propuls system and "flagship" technolog need for deep space missionsTechnolog research now restrict to a few area would be broaden to becom a focu for the center..

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