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Think of all the kids that wanted to be Astronauts. Its also the end of a lot of dreams as well.

Relax guys.

America may have lost the shuttle program but if it's any consolation, we're entering a bold and fantastic new era where the uber-rich pay less in taxes than school children pay for their lunches.

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That color change in the rockets from 0:13 to 0:15 always blows my mind.

Shuttle flights died because it cost too much to pay thousands of people to send 80's technologies into space, for little obvious benefit (arguably).

There are now capitalist reasons to send people into near-earth orbit and beyond.
The future of space aviation will be written by private industry and government backing, not government alone... and I am excited.

(cough) BULLSHIT (/ cough) It died because it doesn't put money in the right peoples pockets.

This is however footage from sts-132, not sts-135.

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