Who feels we can still use the space shuttles but for another mission?
I have done a lot of homework on this topic and just can’t put it all here but its time we use the Shuttles and the space station for “Real Deal” work to directly benefit our situation, keeps people working and do some real good. NASA has been tasked to tell the Gov. what options its has for a future. Well, here is the deal. The shuttles still have life and we have tones of nuclear waste to get rid of. We have 3 working shuttles, one space station and I know form experience we can fly them like a UAV. We have piles of stored Minuteman 2 rocket stages and the second stage will do the job and we have the sun. Do you see the big picture yet? We also have tested/proven transport containers for NW. First, strip down the shuttles to a flying gas can and fly remote like UAV. Build a cheep platform at the space station for loading. Fill and use second stage MMII for boost into the sun. Simple, uses up materials on hand and just mothballed. Uses our current technology. Keeps the shuttles, NASA and people working for long time. Just get the stuff off earth and into the sun and we have all the tools NOW to do it. Let me repeat I have researched all this and WE can do it with our current equipment. We don’t need to collect moon rocks of the moon we need to free our earth of NW and not stick it in a hole in NV that no one wants.
Only real thoughts!
cheers

June 29th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
The people who think the world is over heating will never allow the US to launch nuclear waste into the sun.
Ever.
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June 29th, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Thought of that! The next Red neck President will use it as a campaign slogan/platform and shoot it down. I am sure the government thinks we shall be recycling it in the future. What else can they do with all that radiation. Russia has A Big Pile
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June 30th, 2011 at 1:35 am
We would need thousands of rockets to send our nuclear wastes into space. We don’t have that many.
What happens if one (or more) of the rockets explodes and spews nuclear debris all over the place? We couldn’t clean it up.
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