publicradiointernational: Space shuttle Atlantis lands, ending NASA’s shuttle programThe mood was bittersweet in Cape Canaveral this morning, as the space shuttle Atlantis landed, bringing NASA’s 30-year-old shuttle program to a close. Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Shuttle Program extended the engineering frontier, but not the space frontier. “I was perfectly happy with the space shuttle. My big problem was, why isn’t NASA simultaneously building another kind of ship to go beyond low Earth orbit?”“The country needs to understand that when you have ambitions such as that, that are fulfilled and funded, its effect on a nation … it creates an attitude towards how you might embrace science, engineering, technology and of course mathematics … and that attitude transforms your economy, it transforms your culture, it reengages people.”

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Space shuttle Atlantis lands, ending NASA’s shuttle program

The mood was bittersweet in Cape Canaveral this morning, as the space shuttle Atlantis landed, bringing NASA’s 30-year-old shuttle program to a close.

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Shuttle Program extended the engineering frontier, but not the space frontier. “I was perfectly happy with the space shuttle. My big problem was, why isn’t NASA simultaneously building another kind of ship to go beyond low Earth orbit?”

“The country needs to understand that when you have ambitions such as that, that are fulfilled and funded, its effect on a nation … it creates an attitude towards how you might embrace science, engineering, technology and of course mathematics … and that attitude transforms your economy, it transforms your culture, it reengages people.”

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