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NASA mulls early retirement for space shuttle<br /><br />Preliminary studies look at off-loading station building to rockets<br /><br />HOUSTON - Even as NASA gears up for the space shuttle's return to flight next year, officials at the space agency are quietly studying the possibility of cutting back its number of missions and retiring the spacecraft years ahead of schedule, MSNBC.com has learned. <br /><br />With the shuttle's main objective being the completion of the international space station, such an early retirement would mean either transferring major station assembly and supply jobs to expendable rockets and/or dropping some station components entirely. <br /><br />Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6357772/<br /><br />Acid