Before Atlantis' last flight, shuttle era's legacy debated
Scheduled to depart July 8, Atlantis will carry 23,000 pounds of clothing, food and equipment — a year's worth of supplies — for the International Space Station , a partnership of NASA and the space agencies of Europe, Russia, Canada and Japan.
The mission is about far more than carrying supplies to the space station.
It is sparking renewed debate about whether the space shuttle era was worth the price.
Viewed by NASA as some of the most complicated machines ever built, the space shuttles sent probes to Venus and Jupiter, launched and repaired the Hubble Space Telescope and largely built the International Space Station.
The shuttle missions also cost well more than $1 billion a launch, never met their original goal of weekly, inexpensive launches and cost 14 astronauts their lives in two tragedies that shocked and saddened the nation.
On balance, the shuttle's legacy looks solid to many closely involved in the program.
"It will be a celebration. We achieved our mission goals and did everything we set out to do 30 years ago," said Atlantis Cmdr. Chris Ferguson at a recent Johnson Space Center briefing.
"More than any one technology, the space shuttle demonstrated that humans can work together in space, and the most dramatic evidence is the space station," says John Logsdon , author of John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon .
Given the high costs and the loss of lives, was the space shuttle program a technological triumph or a tragic, expensive detour for human space exploration?
"Legacy questions are a bit like 'ink blots' onto which we map our hopes and aspirations," says science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado in Boulder. "I can certainly make the case both ways — that the shuttle was a debacle or the shuttle was a triumph."
Others say the shuttle deserves a better sendoff than that.
"The main legacy of the space shuttle is that, while it did not make spaceflight as its designers intended, it made spaceflight far more accessible than any vehicle, Russian or American, to date," says former NASA chief Mike Griffin . "I think a due amount of respect has to be paid to that.
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