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Good luck kids!!! 0 -
5 minutes in: 65 miles down range, traveling 8,000 miles an hour. 0 -
6.5 minutes, 498 miles out, 11,000 MPH. 0 -
Spectacular view at tank seperation 7 minutes in. I guess they are in space now.[:o)] 0 -
Thanks for the headsup. I would have missed it otherwise. I am wathcing it on CNN.
Please tell me I am wrong, I saw a ground shot afterwards of the countdown clock that had counted up to past 10 minutes and you could see a flagpole. There was the American Flag, but directly below it was another flag that looked like a mexican flag, it was only on the screen for a few seconds and not very big. Does NASA have a flag?0 -
watched it live on tv here...it would be great to go up for a ride on a shuttle...scary, but great!
as an aside, i wonder what the real risk is of space junk, or anything else up there going at a huge speed hitting it...im sure there would be some risk, but i cant remember anyone talking about it.0 -
Update, the flag I saw was not the mexican flag or even close really. I guess I have to study up on it since we will still have to fly it to appease the liberals.
Here is what I saw.
In my defense I only saw it for about 1 sec as the camera was panning.0 -
quote:Originally posted by RUGERGUNZ
Update, the flag I saw was not the mexican flag or even close really. I guess I have to study up on it since we will still have to fly it to appease the liberals.
Here is what I saw.
In my defense I only saw it for about 1 sec as the camera was panning.
Mexican flag had red white and green as the primary colors.0 -
Hats off to astronauts. Those guys have cajones- especially riding in those old rattletraps.
Seriously....how many jetliners do you see from the late 70s/early 80s still in use?0 -
All my planes date from 1960 and 1961 and they're still flying fine. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by jonk
Hats off to astronauts. Those guys have cajones- especially riding in those old rattletraps.
Seriously....how many jetliners do you see from the late 70s/early 80s still in use?
There's a lot in Russia - but with questionable safety...
But boy, I'd really love to see the spaceshuttle launch... in person.
And I would love to watch one of the big russian Antonov-planes launch too... OH MAN they're big.0 -
Sorry to bust the Mexican conspiracy thing, but it looks like the second flag may say something like "ATLANTIS."
We may have something more sinister under way here. A United States-Atlantis Union. The so-called "lost" continent of Atlantis is alive and well and going to take over America. Do not resist. The Atlantis storm troopers will be along shortly to take your guns.
Oh, wait, isn't the shuttle's name Atlantis?0 -
quote:Originally posted by HappyNanoq
quote:Originally posted by jonk
Hats off to astronauts. Those guys have cajones- especially riding in those old rattletraps.
Seriously....how many jetliners do you see from the late 70s/early 80s still in use?
There's a lot in Russia - but with questionable safety...
Exactly. And THEY don't have to function in a vacuum, travel 20,000 mph, survive temperatures of 3000 degrees, or get shot straight up at 3+ gees. The space shuttles were great ideas for their time but with modern materials science and vectored thrust rockets, lifting body designs, etc. etc., a safer, more modern design (and more efficient!) should be made.0 -
I was doing an irrigation system in an old school-yard, being made into a day-care center.It was in Cocoa Florida.I got to watch a shuttle launch from the roof of the school-house. Pretty spectacular. I was at my aunt's house in Cocoa Beach once, and heard the "double-sonic-boom" when a shuttle landed at the "Cape"...Pretty cool too. 0
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