[Names Ash Housewares]

Seems like yesterday sometimes we watched in awe as Columbia ushered in the Shuttle era in 1981.
People have grown up now their whole lives with America flying shuttles.
She still fills me with awe, I have always thought the shuttle stack looks cathedral-like on the pad.
Time for shuttle to finish her work and move on to the next vehicles, as ugly and boring as the CEV looks, it will take us much farther in more ways then one.
I hope we will see more winged spacecraft from private industry. There is a beauty to machines with wings.

[cabojoe]

Well said Ash (Housewares).

[Moonman62]

Time for shuttle to finish her work and move on to the next vehicles, as ugly and boring as the CEV looks, it will take us much farther in more ways then one.

I agree. It should kill NASA's manned program for good. Sadly, it's probably going to take a chunk of NASA's good programs with it.

I hope we will see more winged spacecraft from private industry. There is a beauty to machines with wings.

I hope so, and maybe what's left of NASA can hire them as needed.