ground the bird and to move on because it had done its job of building the space station, carrying the big pieces and now nasa needs a various spacecraft for human space flight including one to ferry people back and forth from the station and other stations and other spacecraft to go out toward the moon and deeper into space. both those projects are under development and not as fast as enthusiasts would like, but they are making progress, and we are paying for transport and space taxi services until we have our own coming online. that s not nearly as bad a situation and it s a downer and we re doing the taxi work while we re building new spacecraft and they re the ones that s afraid witha i few years that they ll become obsolete.