space program's last misson

In February, President Barack Obama included $600 million for NASA's space shuttle program as part of the agency's fiscal year 2011 budget proposal. The funds were set aside in case NASA needed to delay its final shuttle flights beyond their planned September 2010 retirement date.

Atlantis flew its 32nd and final scheduled mission in May to deliver a new Russian room to the International Space Station. NASA is hoping to get a chance to launch the shuttle one more time in June 2011 to deliver cargo and supplies to the orbiting lab.

The plan is part of President Obama's new space exploration proposal, which also includes the cancellation of NASA's Constellation program developing new rockets and spaceships slated to send astronauts back to the moon.

Once the space shuttles retire for good, NASA will rely on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from the space station until American commercial spaceships become available.

So if they are cancelling both of their main projects, what is NASA going to be working on...?

Jetpacks!

Just kidding. No clue what they will be working on...

Actually not a ton of people know this but real, working jet packs have been around for awhile. They are just having trouble finding a way to fuel them for longer than a few minutes. If you search the internet you can find some videos of people using jetpacks.

space research?

Eagle Eye307 wrote:Actually not a ton of people know this but real, working jet packs have been around for awhile. They are just having trouble finding a way to fuel them for longer than a few minutes. If you search the internet you can find some videos of people using jetpacks.

I already knew that, but I meant NASA doing them.

FlareonMaster wrote:

Eagle Eye307 wrote:Actually not a ton of people know this but real, working jet packs have been around for awhile. They are just having trouble finding a way to fuel them for longer than a few minutes. If you search the internet you can find some videos of people using jetpacks.

I already knew that, but I meant NASA doing them.

i knew that to its common info by the way

InuYasha 2b3 wrote:

FlareonMaster wrote:

Eagle Eye307 wrote:Actually not a ton of people know this but real, working jet packs have been around for awhile. They are just having trouble finding a way to fuel them for longer than a few minutes. If you search the internet you can find some videos of people using jetpacks.

I already knew that, but I meant NASA doing them.

i knew that to its common info by the way

It's common info but not too many people realize it for some reason. I wasn't trying to give the impression that it was top secret or anything.

Jetpacks will remain impractical until someone develops a better design that requires less fuel or uses another method of propulsion... they're still awesome however

They are currently like Halo Reach jet packs, they only last for a minute.