There were a lot of excellent reasons for the Space Shuttle program to end. What makes me (and so many others) sad is not that its 70s-80s technology meant that it had to be retired, but that we did so without something active to take its place.
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Philip Scott Andrews' ongoing photo series Last Days documents the end of NASA's space shuttle program. For three years Andrews has had unprecedented access to Cape Canaveral and he's made good use of…
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You hit the nail on the head. It's not the idea of the end of the space shuttle but an end to the advancement of human space flight that saddens and diminishes us.