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Here is a link to a live HD feed of the final shuttle launch at NASA. Hit the link to watch, the countdown will be starting soon.
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Thanks for posting this link. Just made it 4 minutes before time, halted clock not included!
This was pretty special to watch. Sad that it had to come to this. I hope another form of a shuttle program will materialize some day.
So now the US is going to rely on the Russians for going to ISS and back?
Thanks for posting this link. Just made it 4 minutes before time, halted clock not included!
This was pretty special to watch. Sad that it had to come to this. I hope another form of a shuttle program will materialize some day.
So now the US is going to rely on the Russians for going to ISS and back?
6600mph ftw
I think I heard a 15000 mph !
Does everyone working in mission control get military training or are do they all have military backgrounds already?
Deep space exploration, yes please. Thanks for the reply Azhar.
nope most are civilians and some on the night sift are very young was watching one night they interviewed this one girl working the night sift on the ISS control i think she was 26 or some thing and had been working for NASA for 4 years
Yeah....I had a lot of buddies in mission control. They were all very young.
It is sad that this will be the last trip to space or a very long time for NASA. Bolden is one of the worst administrators NASA has ever had. Instead of spending 17 billion a year to develop a new launch capability, develop satellites for climate change, and develop satellites for space exploration....NASA is now spending 18 billion a year to just develop satellites or climate change and space exploration. NASA is not working closely with SpaceX. SpaceX has a contract and should send some cargo to the ISS soonish...and maybe one day people. NASA is not actively doing anything to get humans back into space. I wish I could go back and work at NASA in the 60s when they were actually doing something. Instead, I got to work there recently. I honestly don't think I have ever worked with such incompetent people as I had at NASA. /rant
First time (and last) I've seen a shuttle launch live. I've always imagined the actual launch to be a lot slower (thanks to Hollywood), but seeing the Shuttle approaching the exosphere within under a minute...just wow!
Hoping I can find a Youtube vid of this somewhere. I missed it cause of work.
End of a 30+ year legacy. Can't believe its actually over now. Grew up all my life hearing and watching the space shuttles flight. So sad our country with its fucked up politics and greedy politicians has resulted in the end of such an incredible machine and era of human kind with no real planes to replace it
Hope the private sector is truly up to the challenge.
Thanx alot Obama for making us dependent on second rate space programs of foreign countries
NASA is not working closely with SpaceX. SpaceX has a contract and should send some cargo to the ISS soonish...
No replacement?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Purpose_Crew_Vehicle
Space Launch System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SLS is actually based on the space shuttle and it can lift much more than the shuttle with an orbiter. The orbiter isn't really necessary this day in age. Back in the 1960's they thought that reusable vehicles were cheaper to operate, and back in the 1960's they didn't have other technology we have so they needed people on hand everywhere all the time.
dont say SpaceX they wont have a man rated rocket for the next 10 years if not 20
ok you have A crew vehicle how you going to launch it?
dont say SpaceX they wont have a man rated rocket for the next 10 years if not 20
Thanx alot Obama for making us dependent on second rate space programs of foreign countries