At approximately 5:56 am on July 21, 2011 at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility, NASA's Space Shuttle program will come to an end as Shuttle Atlantis touches down for the last time. Fortunately, in my opinion, that doesn't mean the end of space exploration.
Quite the contrary.
As I told Brittany Klontz from WellHome when she emailed me about this infographic,
I'm quite fascinated by space and even the possibilities of both time and interdimmensional travel (that is if there are multiple dimensions...which there may or may not be).
That said, I don't think hurtling ourselves through space via the use of rocket fuel and then gravity, once in space, is going to take us anywhere much further than the moon. I think the future of our space travel will be in the development of advanced technologies like warp drives...or even one day, the utilization of worm holes.
Let's face it, it just takes too long to travel anywhere of significance in space by conventional methods.
Be that as it may, what type of environmental impact did the Space Shuttle Program have on the environment? This awesome infographic breaks it down:
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