[quote=afx114]The sad thing is that we didn’t fund enough or didn’t plan well enough for there to have been a shuttle replacement on deck for when it retires. So in the meantime we’ll be paying the Russians for rides on their rockets. No, America is not over, but my how the mighty have fallen.[/quote]

It’s not that bad, considering that Russians will be providing rides on rockets whose original design dates back to 1965. They had even less progress than we did.