Dépêches
AIAA Hails End of Space Shuttle Era, Looks with Confidence to Future of Human Space Flight
Dépèche transmise le 21 juillet 2011 par Business Wire

AIAA Hails End of Space Shuttle Era, Looks with Confidence to Future of Human Space Flight
RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On the final landing of space shuttle Atlantis, and the end of the space shuttle era, Robert S. “Bob” Dickman, executive director of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), stated:
“Sir Isaac Newton noted that progress is obtained by standing on the shoulders of giants – I can think of no better shoulders for the future generation of our community to stand on than those of the thousands of men and women who made the shuttle program possible.”
“With the return of Atlantis, the space shuttle era has ended. Another flawless landing concluded a textbook flight that really began more than four decades ago, as a dream for the post-Apollo era. From the time STS-132 landed last year, thousands of people worked to prepare Atlantis, and her crew, for STS-135. No flight is really “textbook” though. Things break, timelines shift, changes happen – and human beings in space and on the ground make it seem normal. The success of the shuttle program is truly theirs.
“Discovery, Endeavour, and Atlantis will fly no more. Some see this as an end, but it is not. Thirty years of shuttle missions, and of learning, growing, and improving, will not be forgotten: calluses and scar tissue; joy and tears; plots on strip charts and real-time visualizations; gauges and glass cockpits; prayers for safe flight and, yes, prayers of grieving; looking back and looking ahead. The legacy of the shuttle era will be with us as long as humans journey from earth to space.
“When Apollo ended, I didn’t know what was next, but I was confident something great would be coming. As the shuttle ends, I again don’t know what is coming, but I am just as confident that something great is coming. It’s time to reflect one more time on what has been, and then roll up our sleeves and get to work – again.
“Sir Isaac Newton noted that progress is obtained by standing on the shoulders of giants – I can think of no better shoulders for the future generation of our community to stand on than those of the thousands of men and women who made the shuttle program possible.”
AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. With more than 35,000 individual members worldwide, and 90 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. For more information, visit www.aiaa.org.
- 27/03 Norse Atlantic Airways inaugure son vol entre Paris-CDG et New York
- 27/03 Emirates commande des DA42-VI de Diamond Aircraft
- 27/03 Emirates va lancer le premier vol en A380 à destination de Bali
- 27/03 Delta relance son vol quotidien entre Nice et New York-JFK
- 27/03 Air Transat relance son offre "train + air"
- 24/03 Remise de décorations à des membres d’équipages de drones Reaper
- 24/03 Air Tahiti Nui proposera toute l'année sa liaison entre Seattle et Paris
- 24/03 Satys ouvre une nouvelle salle de peinture à Toulouse
- 24/03 Amelia et Universal Hydrogen poursuivent leur engagement pour des vols commerciaux à l'hydrogène
- 23/03 Le SD-2 de Spacek Ltd. reçoit sa certification 525 kg en France
- 22/03 Le Temps des Hélices : première démonstration d’un F-16 à La Ferté-Alais
- 21/03 Twin Jet proposera une nouvelle liaison depuis Marseille
- 21/03 Korean Air achemine des produits de secours en Turquie
- 21/03 Finnair achète 750 tonnes de carburant aérien durable
- 21/03 La FFPLUM donne des précisions sur la fréquence 125.335
- 20/03 Volotea organise un festival de musique à Nantes
- 20/03 Air France détaille son programme été 2023
- 20/03 Retour de Corsair à Madagascar
- 20/03 Air Caraïbes : son programme d'été 2023
- 16/03Vought F4U Corsair à pédales (photos)