To boldly go......nowhere!

On the anniversary of mankind's first flight into space, the homes for the retired shuttles is announced. The UK and France retired Concorde, the UK the Harrier jump jet, and its last aircraft carrier. Juri Gargarin must be spinning in his grave.Why are we going backwards? To boldy....go nowhere!

The UN should pick up the baton, and the world should unite in a common quest to go ever further into space.We will have to leave this planet one day.



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Nasa has announced where its iconic space shuttles will spend their retirement.

Endeavour on the launch pad

Twenty-one museums and visitor centres around the United States had been involved in a frantic lobbying campaign for the right to be a new home for one of the shuttles.

The space agency has confirmed that Discovery will go to the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum in the Virginia countryside near Washington DC.