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NEWS > SCIENCE > FINAL SHUTTLE ATLANTIS FLIGHT MARKS THE END OF HUMAN SPACE TRAVEL
FINAL SHUTTLE ATLANTIS FLIGHT MARKS THE END OF HUMAN SPACE TRAVEL
May 14 2010
Cape Canaveral, FL – For thousands of years human beings have looked to the stars and dreamed. Much of our culture has been decided by the world outside our own. Our lives are organized around the rising and falling of the sun, the moon affects
the essential waters of our planet, and the stars gave us Gods and religion. Space may or may not be the final frontier but it has most certainly expanded the barriers of humanity and not only changed our world, but given us dreams of a something even greater.
Because it space has been so influential it is a shame that we are now giving up the chase for the stars. The final days of NASA’s shuttle program, which at one time was going to be the vessel that would carry us all into space, are nigh marking and end to the nearly sixty year-old journey to touch the realm of the Gods. Of course we will still look out upon the stars and space vessels launched decades ago still roam the solar system, pinging back information, but the time for human exploration has now come and gone with little to show for our time in the heavens. 
“Like you said, there are thousands of folks out there who have taken care of this bird for a long time. We're going to take her on her 32nd flight, and if you don't mind, we'll take her out of the barn and make a few more laps around the planet,” said Atlantis commander Kenneth Ham. “We’re going to have a little fun up here and enjoy the last trip of this grand old lady. We are going to send her out in style.”
That last comment had NASA workers a little concerned, particularly because the crew had spent the last few days enjoying a Star Trek movie marathon. In the final scene in the sixth film in that series, ‘The Undiscovered Country’, Captain Kirk and his crew zoom off into space after being ordered back to be decommissioned. 
“It’s really sad that all of this has to come to an end. The shuttle was designed to be an ultimate spacecraft, an infinitely reusable vessel that would forever change the way we explored space. That didn’t come to pass obviously, because we are all still stuck here being forced to use gravity and not playing golf on the moon,” said Scrape TV Science analyst Dr. Howard Poe. “I really think the last thing anyone thought we would be doing in 2010 is sitting and watching ‘American Idol’ instead of travelling around the cosmos. Frankly, if someone had they would have been ridiculously wealthy. I mean the people behind that show make a lot of money but if they had been able to tell the future they would have used that to win every lottery or something. That’s what I would have done.”
Because of time paradoxes, far too complex to discuss here, most scientists believe that any form of time travel or seeing the future is impossible.
“I mean other countries talk about going into space but that hardly matters really. There’s no way that India or China can carry the dreams of humanity on their backs. The dream is dead and we just have to accept that. Perhaps now it is time to focus on more earthbound issues like flying cars which are still really far from happening,” continued Poe. “Personal jet packs too. Those would be awesome. Hoverboards, self fastening shoes, self drying clothes. That is the future and we can’t find any of that in space.”
Thus far the Atlantis is still orbiting Earth.
Anna Phillips, Science Correspondent
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