Final Space Shuttle Mission
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- PonyBoy
Launches in about 50 mins... live here:
- bokse0
cool, you don´t want to miss this.
- SteveJobs0
final?
- PonyBoy0
Yep... final — this is it. :(
I barely remember the first launch... *tears
- Dodecahedron0
What do they have to replace it?
- nothingbetelgeuse
- I was hoping anti-gravity mobilesDodecahedron
- The Russians are the current 'replacement' vehicles.ghandolf
- tymeframe0
Just for Discovery right? The other two shuttles will still be used.
- really? i thought that was it....betelgeuse
- this is the very last of all themPonyBoy
- SteveJobs0
*shakes fist at moon* never again!!
- Josev0
Wow, I'm kinda bummed.
I remember painting a mural/super graphic of the Shuttle taking off on a wall in my High School. I was a sophomore and it was to commemorate the first flight.
- bokse0
"What do they have to replace it?"
russian, european and japanese vehicles will guarantee c4rgo-deliveries to ISS. russians with their old ships, euros and japanese have cool new automated spaceships (currently not manned). the second european ATV is currently docked at or on its way to ISS i think.
personnel transfer will be done exclusively by russians.
- epic_rim0
Obama's budget, according to a background briefing by an administration official on Sunday, will call for spending $6 billion over five years to develop a commercial spacecraft that could taxi astronauts into low Earth orbit. Going commercial with a human crew would represent a dramatic change in the way NASA does business. Instead of NASA owning the spacecraft and overseeing every nut and bolt of its design and construction, a private company would design and build the spacecraft with NASA looking over its shoulder.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
I see, private take over.
- that's how it should be, seeing as how the government can't seem to do anything efficiently or cheapmonospaced
- bokse0
there´s really no point in this kind of re-usable orbiter system, as cool as it was > NASA shuttle program inherently flawed.
- ghandolf0
One of the main missions of the re-usable shuttles, was to be the vehicle used to build-out the space station. That work is complete. Trips to and from the ISS can be done by other countries, new technologies, and private enterprises (like Branson/Rutan). NASA's new focus is supposed to be interplanetary in nature, however there's little funding for any of it at this time.
- Dodecahedron0
only like 8 minutes, its moving now
- ghandolf0
5 minutes - all systems go!
- autoflavour0
im such a nerd, i have been watching this for the past 3 hours..
the only thing which is nerdier is when i got excited that mac have announced new macbook pro's.. and as i am due for an upgrade.. it tickled my fancy more than usual.
- tymeframe0
There are two more shuttle flights planned, just not for Discovery. Scroll down to planned missions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS…
- autoflavour0
FIX YOUR FUCKING COMPUTER RANGE!!!
The tension.. its killing me
1.30 seconds remaining
- autoflavour0
down to the wire..
40 seconds remaining and the range is goARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH!!!
- AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHH...
autoflavour - that was the count down to the 5 minute mark i think ...Dodecahedron
- yeah, exactly.. but that was the launch window for the dayautoflavour
- AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGHHH...
- Dodecahedron0
get ready to blaze it up! i got my bong