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Nasa decided in 2009, two years prior to the retirement of the 30-year-old shuttle programme, that it would split its manned spaceflight operations in two.
If NASA shuts down its manned flight programs it can focus on promising robotic and remotely controlled machines like the Cassini-Huygens probe.
After North Korea detonated a test nuclear device in May, America said it would begin replacing its manned U-2 spy planes in South Korea with Global Hawks, which are roughly the size of a corporate jet.Big drones are, however, hugely expensive.
The PMAW (pronounced "P More") isn't your typical drone – developed in 2011 by a public-private partnership on behalf of the US military, it's shaped not like its manned predecessors, but like an owl.
To the Editor: Though we astronomers care more about NASA's robotic missions, like the one now going out to Pluto and beyond, it is nonetheless very sad to see NASA losing its manned capabilities for a decade or more.
The goal is to eliminate all of its manned tollbooths to reduce bottlenecks.
The country launched its space programme with its first manned mission in 2003, when it became only the third country after Russia and the United States to launch a man into space, followed by a two-man mission in 2005.
Next year it says it will launch its third manned spaceship into orbit around Earth.
In June it conducted its fifth manned mission, during which Shenzhou-10 docked with the first phase of the country's putative space station.
China has announced that this fall it will launch its first manned spacecraft -- a capsule remarkably similar to a Russian Soyuz.
In science news around the world, SpaceX unveils its new manned capsule that it hopes will ferry astronauts to the International Space Station, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative's aim to stop transmission of the virus in 2014 is at risk, Australia's national research organization will shutter eight facilities in the wake of an austerity budget, and more.
