packers101 wrote on Jul 25^th, 2011 at 12:47am:

I have some friends who work for NASA and they said that it will be replaced by a rocket (like the ones used in the early days of space-travel) but it will be state of the art.

The Saturn V was considered state of the art, too.  ;) ;D

It's sad to see the Shuttle go, I went down to Cape Canaveral last winter but it had already been retired.  :(