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Thu, Jul 7, 2011 -- 9:00 AM
The Space Shuttle's Final Mission
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NASA space shuttle Atlantis sits on a launch pad on June 17 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Atlantis mission scheduled for July 8 will end NASA's space shuttle program.
The majority of Americans find it "essential" for the U.S. to stay a world leader in human spaceflight, according to a recent national poll. Yet the last mission of the U.S. space shuttle program is scheduled to take off on Friday. How will the shuttering of this historic endeavor change our dreams for space exploration?
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- G. Scott Hubbard, professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and former director of the NASA Ames Research Center
- Garrett E. Reisman, former NASA astronaut and chief of the Manned Spaceflight Project at SpaceX, a Bay Area space exploration technologies company
- Jack Boyd, senior adviser to NASA Ames' center director and senior adviser to the Ames History Office at NASA Ames Research Center
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