Desirable Rumor: The Space Shuttle May Still Have a Future

Here's a tantalizing but hugely exciting rumor for human spaceflight geeks: NASA and the government are rumored to be talking quietly about extending the Shuttle's technology into the future.

The news has popped up on Spaceref.com as a product of the discussion preceding the big April 15th Space Summit meeting at NASA Kennedy Flight Center, where more details about the future of human spaceflight in the U.S. are going to be thrashed out. Right now the status of manned space flight is stalled...