![]() ![]() Making a second spaceflight was Doug Hurley, who later flew on SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission with Bob Behnken. The crew of Shuttle veterans was commanded by Christopher Ferguson, who would go on to be assigned to the first test flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule, before stepping down in 2020. A reauthorisation bill added the mission to the manifest, and NASA announced that it would proceed with the launch at the start of 2011. The Space Shuttle programme was supposed to have ended with STS-134. By the time of STS-135, however, the programme had reached the end of the road.Īs well as the lack of a rescue Shuttle, STS-135 was also notable due to the funding shenanigans associated with it. Since the loss of Columbia in 2003, Launch On Need (LON) missions (numbered STS-3xx) were on standby in the event of a vehicle being deemed unable to attempt a successful re-entry. As such the plan was to have the crew remain aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and be returned to Earth via Soyuz over the next year. No flight hardware was immediately available to mount a rescue of STS-135 should anything have gone awry. We have all the time we need to play with ideas, try new things, and experiment until we figure out what works.Last launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis (Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) This feeling of abundance makes us less risk-averse and therefore more creative. We have plenty of opportunity to develop new skills, collect resources, recruit allies, learn from our mistakes, bounce back from setbacks, and do whatever else we need to do to get the best possible outcome. But when thinking ahead 10 years … ah, it’s so much time! On a 10-year timeline, we don’t feel rushed. It is almost impossible to create a sense of time spaciousness when we’re thinking in a matter of days or weeks. It’s the relaxing and empowering feeling that we have enough time to do what really matters-to consider our options, make a plan, and act more confidently to create the future we want. This has to do with a psychological phenomenon known as time spaciousness. We become more optimistic and hopeful about what we can change through our own efforts. When we think on a 10-year timeline, it’s not just that we are more likely to believe that dramatic change can happen in the world. ![]() Futurists want people to go somewhere they believe anything can be different-even things that seem impossible to change today. ![]() And it’s for this reason that whenever I send people on mental time trips to the future, I almost always send them 10 years ahead. Ten years even relaxes us a bit as we try to imagine preparing for dramatic disruptions or for a radical rethinking of what’s normal-because 10 years gives us time to get ready. Ten years helps us consider possibilities we would otherwise dismiss. And for that reason, 10 years helps unstick our minds. The purpose of looking 10 years ahead isn’t to see that everything will happen on that timeline-but there is ample evidence that almost anything could happen on that timeline. And progress doesn’t just stop after 10 years. Of course, not all goals for change can be achieved in a decade-many social movements take much longer. And social change that seems improbable or unimaginable-well, in 10 years that can change, too. ![]() In other words: Things that are small experiments today in 10 years can become ubiquitous and world-changing. ![]()
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