Last ever Shuttle Launch this afternoon!

[smeggypants]

Last ever Shuttle Launch this afternoon!

I'm awake and i'll try not to miss it

[Channel Hopper]

Hi def stream here,

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

launch now at 30 minutes, though the delays may continue

[Rocky]

Last ever Shuttle Launch this afternoon!

I'm awake and i'll try not to miss it

Not as important as the last NOTW on Sunday.

[smeggypants]

Last ever Shuttle Launch this afternoon!

I'm awake and i'll try not to miss it

Not as important as the last NOTW on Sunday.

Well I'll be sorry to see the back of the shuttle. There's the difference

[smeggypants]

It's about to launch. testing the gimbling

[Rocky]

Last ever Shuttle Launch this afternoon!

I'm awake and i'll try not to miss it

Not as important as the last NOTW on Sunday.

Well I'll be sorry to see the back of the shuttle. There's the difference

Most people have never even seen the Shuttle, only on TV, so there won't be much to miss AFAIC.

What has all the money spent on it achieved over the years..billions of dollars that could have been better spent on the slum areas of Alabama and other deep South ghettos where people are still living in tin shacks and having their homes washed away each time the hurricanes arrive.

Bah to the Shuttle! Let's worry more about conditions on Earth before spending these obscene sums of money on space adventures.

[smeggypants]

Last ever Shuttle Launch this afternoon!

I'm awake and i'll try not to miss it

Not as important as the last NOTW on Sunday.

Well I'll be sorry to see the back of the shuttle. There's the difference

Most people have never even seen the Shuttle, only on TV, so there won't be much to miss AFAIC.

What has all the money spent on it achieved over the years..billions of dollars that could have been better spent on the slum areas of Alabama and other deep South ghettos where people are still living in tin shacks and having their homes washed away each time the hurricanes arrive.

Bah to the Shuttle!

The USA spends $700 billion a year on killing people. The USA spends under $6 billion a year on the shuttle.

If you're going to complain about money being directed to the wrong use then I think it's obvious where the biggest complaint should go.

[Gunner 51]

Wow, does that mean the US has given up on space exploration?

[Channel Hopper]

Not at all, Project Orion (not the most original name) is most likely to be the next into space, around 2017.

[smeggypants]

I wish they'd hurry up! - We're not getting any younger

[hurachai]

Space shuttle tracker


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13877321

[Gunner 51]

Not at all, Project Orion (not the most original name) is most likely to be the next into space, around 2017.

It's nice to know that the Americans haven't given up on space travel. But now that Project Orion is looking to go forward, how's it going to reach space without the shuttles. I hope they're not using those dreadful old rockets from the 1960's.

[hurachai]

Not at all, Project Orion (not the most original name) is most likely to be the next into space, around 2017.

It's nice to know that the Americans haven't given up on space travel. But now that Project Orion is looking to go forward, how's it going to reach space without the shuttles. I hope they're not using those dreadful old rockets from the 1960's.

What



do you mean



great stuff





or







Grew up on a diet of these programs

[wotsit2]

H

[smeggypants]

hehe

I see the International Space Station is nearly finished ....



I was a huge thunderbirds fan.

[hurachai]

hehe

I see the International Space Station is nearly finished ....



I was a huge thunderbirds fan.

me too, Have the videos still.

[Gunner 51]

Not at all, Project Orion (not the most original name) is most likely to be the next into space, around 2017.

It's nice to know that the Americans haven't given up on space travel. But now that Project Orion is looking to go forward, how's it going to reach space without the shuttles. I hope they're not using those dreadful old rockets from the 1960's.

What



do you mean



great stuff




Grew up on a diet of these programs

Thunderbirds were great, but those old space phalluses just don't have the same cheeky look the shuttles do. (My god, I'm sad for saying that.)

[Channel Hopper]

The shuttle left the station a few hours ago, some great live coverage on the NASA TV link

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[smeggypants]

Just put it on.

Live coverage? there's two guys in white suits on the moon erecting an American flag?

[wotsit2]

Just put it on.

Live coverage? there's two guys in white suits on the moon erecting an American flag?

annie won't have that