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Excerpt from "AEROSPACE: The King's Payload"

AEROSPACE:  The King's Payload, Chapter 31 - Space Suit Fittings Before now, no one had mentioned the end of the program.   It was just too painful.   Tears came to my eyes, too. I just couldn’t think about the retirement of the Space Shuttle. It was just an awful thought. Dalton spoke. “I certainly don’t understand, since the Space Shuttles were built to be launched 100 times.   The shuttles have only flown approximately 30 times each.   NASA needs to keep the Space Shuttle Program until the United States has the capability to launch its own space rocket to the Space Station, or even to the moon.   If we lose our edge, our economy will suffer. That’s what happened to the Russians when they lost the race to the moon.” I said, “Not only that, but it will affect the dreams and hopes of our children.   They will lose their desire to be astronauts, scientists, mathematicians, and aerospace engineers.   Where will the technical inspiration come from?” Sh