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Here is a some thing intresting .<br />---------------------<br /><br />CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As NASA aims to shelve the shuttle program in three years' time, Canadian space officials are pondering: where to go next.<br /><br />The Canadian Space Agency is looking down the road, both short and long term, even as Canadian Dave Williams is flying on Endeavour with six other astronauts in the shuttle's current mission.<br /><br />Endeavour blasted into space in a smooth launch Wednesday evening, heading for a Friday rendezvous with the orbiting International Space Station.<br /><br />Space programs across the globe are focusing on exploration in the future.<br /><br />Russian, Chinese, European and the United States are looking to returning to the moon once the International Space Station is built, and then beyond to Mars.<br /><br />"Canada is currently assessing where we want to go," said Benoit Marcotte, acting director of operations and assets for the Canadian Space Agency, or CSA.<br /><br />"Eventually, we'll make the right decisions about the future about the CSA, Canadian astronauts and the future of our involvement in partnerships."<br /><br />The agency's new president, Larry Boisvert, who has been in place since April, met with NASA administrator Michael Griffin on Wednesday to discuss the future.<br /><br />For now, NASA officials are scrambling to have the space station completed and operational by 2010 while working on a new reusable vehicle, the Orion capsule.<br /><br />The space station program is scheduled to end by 2016, but Marcotte said it's entirely possible that could be extended.<br /><br />But since Orion is only scheduled to fly in 2014, the main space transport in the interim will be the Russian Soyuz system.<br /><br />Canadian astronauts Chris Hadfield and Robert Thirsk are qualified as Soyuz flight engineers, and Thirsk is training for a long-term stay in space.<br /><br />Marcotte says while it is unlikely that Canada will ever be able to conduct space activitie <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>