Space Shuttle Fly-Over

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feller469

Moving to a trailer in Fife, AL.

• Jul 21, 2011

• #1

Got up early this morning and saw the Space Shuttle on its approach. It was just a brighter than usual light in the sky, but the double sonic boom was cool. Sounded like a couple of shotgun blasts.

Never got to see one take off, but I got to see this.

 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac

• Jul 21, 2011

• #2

Pretty cool. I saw that "re-entry garbage"--as the authorities called it-- explode across the horizon several years ago. It was like watching a really big meteor, only with flames coming behind. Guess it's time for the "next generation" of reusable spacecraft.

 

Bonezstorm

• Jul 21, 2011

• #3

So that was the very last time a NASA space shuttle flew outer space?

 

maildude

Postal Paranoiac

• Jul 21, 2011

• #4

Bonezstorm said:

So that was the very last time a NASA space shuttle flew outer space?

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http://news.yahoo.com/astronauts-close-shuttle-doors-last-flight-home-063209748.html

 

mrtrebus

• Jul 21, 2011

• #5

Did it blown up yet?
:dunno:

 

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feller469

Moving to a trailer in Fife, AL.

• Jul 21, 2011

• #6

mrtrebus said:

Did it blown up yet?
:dunno:

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you neg repped me for less. Yet, I shall let it pass.

Still waiting for that British space launch.
















still waiting.

 

mrtrebus

• Jul 21, 2011

• #7

feller469 said:

you neg repped me for less. Yet, I shall let it pass.

Still waiting for that British space launch.
















still waiting.

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Already happened.

 

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feller469

Moving to a trailer in Fife, AL.

• Jul 21, 2011

• #8

understood

 

CunningStunts

• Jul 21, 2011

• #9

End of an era... Sad to see but very cool too.

 

Jagger69

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue

• Jul 22, 2011

• #10

Seen and heard it a number of times when I lived in O'ville back in the 1980s. Very cool....and very sad to see America's leadership in the exploration of space pass into oblivion.

 

Mr_Balls

• Jul 22, 2011

• #11

I am bummed us as Americans have ended our space program.

It was something we could have been proud of for years to come.

Oh well...lets build a monument or something now collectively as a country.

 

busaguy79

• Jul 22, 2011

• #12

Yeah this sucks and now hearing the Russians gloating now and the 63 million dollars they will charge us for a seat on their rockets its just pitiful!!

It wouldn't be bad if we were in the process of building the successor to the shuttle as its being retired but we have nothing on the drawing board!!!

Hell we even test fired the most powerful rocket engine ever made but the project was scrapped!!

Its sad because this is just another sign that out country is going down the shitter and we will soon be looking up to China!!!! We need to get our fingers out of our assess!!

 

Hypergalaxy

• Jul 22, 2011

• #13

maildude said:

Guess it's time for the "next generation" of reusable spacecraft.

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Extremely sad that no one knows when that is going to be. If all those nasa workers getting laid off doesnt drive the point home about how bad this economy has gotten I dont know what will.