^ says the guy with the title "Engineer" wait..what did I just point out?

Your downfall

Wait a second, how on Earth (and Moon and Mars) did you get the idea of NASA colapse?

They don't use space shuttles anymore for the same reason we don't drive steam cars.

They simply invented new space ship, looks like rocket they normally used many times before, but it's reusable like space shuttles. They will use this new space rocket for all their missions, including launching new orbital satellites and maintaining orbiting ones.

And their new plan (100% confirmed and in works)(was said earlier in this thread) is: Deploy colony on the Moon, sunbathe a bit there and then launch a manned rocket from the Moon itself to the Mars. Then whole internet will fap and NASA will get craploads of easter bunnies from everyone.

Doesn't sound like closing business to me.

Yes, NASA is not closing. It's just the end of the shuttle program and the retirement of the fleet because frankly, it's old technology. Even though the space shuttle is the most complex machine ever built.

People are now capable of building even greater machines. Things like the X-43 and whatever other new craft NASA is going to deploy will do a much better job of whatever the shuttles ever did.

A moon colony sounds interesting, it would serve for research, an intermediate point between the Earth and a target, and I guess population.

The main problem with that, Doodrgn, is logistics and how much it would cost to support life on the moon. It simply is not economically viable, even if theoretically possible.

But the key to that is self-sustainability. If there was this colony, and with whatever technology that was supplied to it it could farm, have adequate water, and be properly ventilated, it wouldn't be anything out of the Earth-dwellers' pockets anymore, save maybe a few repair or supply operations. It would be, for the most part, a one-off payment.

Hell, if that happened the moon could eventually have its own economy and sell back the shit it makes to Earth.

Becoming an entire different race of people eventually, causing a battle between moonling and earthling.... etc etc.

I'm tired, going to bed. Gnight.

Then came Cortex Command.

Shiiiiit.

And night.