In Space, No One Can Hear You Scheme

Play the pipes slowly for Atlantis, Endeavor, and Discovery.  In 2010, NASA will retire its old workhorses for good.
The shuttering of the shuttle program leaves American space exploration in an awkward situation.  The next generation of spacecraft, dubbed the Constellation Project, will not be operable until at least 2015.  For the intervening five years, the [...]