The BBC has a gallery of pictures of NASA's exploration architecture. It's a shame the damned things will cost so much, and do so little.

[Update at 1:30 PM EDT]

It looks like they got them here, if you want high-res versions.

Looks like something that should have happened in the late '70's, doesn't it?

> It looks like they got them here, if you want high-res versions.

Well, okay, but what I really want are more cost-effective versions. :-)

MSNBC has an article about it. They have some images. The one that cracks me up is the new apollo capsule rendezvousing with ISS. Someone hasn't been paying attention, because the ISS model is a bit out of date--it shows the SPP and Russian labs, etc.

"Looks like something that should have happened in the late '70's, doesn't it?"

Yeah, maybe it's like on Dallas when Pam woke up and Bobby was still alive. The Shuttle program's just been a bad dream, that's all...

The Shuttle program's just been a bad dream, that's all...

Wouldn't that be nice?

Some in the alt space community have it as an article of faith that things went off the rails when Apollo was cancelled and the remains used as lawn ornaments. This isn't a boondogle, we're correcting a mistake.

Of course, if we have the follow-on to Apollo we also have the loud mouths speaking up about waste and 'think of the children' and 'we still have poor people here to think about'. And yes, there they are, coming over the horizon.

This is very depressing - it looks just like the Revell models I put together in 1968-1972.

Very sad indeed.