Originally by: Atticus Fynch

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Hard to beleive they are still flying those things (since the early 1980s)

Should have been scrapped years ago in favor of better technology

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Originally by: Khira Kitamatsu

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Originally by: Atticus Fynch

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Hard to beleive they are still flying those things (since the early 1980s)

Should have been scrapped years ago in favor of better technology

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What better technology? Show me one space craft currently in service that can do what the shuttle can do.

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Originally by: Atticus Fynch

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Originally by: Khira Kitamatsu

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Originally by: Atticus Fynch

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Hard to beleive they are still flying those things (since the early 1980s)

Should have been scrapped years ago in favor of better technology

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What better technology? Show me one space craft currently in service that can do what the shuttle can do.

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The shuttle is a glofied cargo glider. It can't even "fly" under its own power...it's just a controlled fall from orbit. The same can be acompished with heavy payload rockets.

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Originally by: Abrazzar

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If there were any need to specify the point when the US started to fall, this would be it.

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Originally by: Draconyx

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Edited by: Draconyx on 08/07/2011 14:55:09
Sad really.

NASA gets less then 1% of the US budget.
And people want to kill it entirely which will do nothing for the budget.
NASA is one of the few organizations that is investing in the future and not looking @ making a profit.

Somewhere there was a quote saying that it costs every US tax payer 5 cents a year to run it.
In that case I have a Dollar here where do I send it ?

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Originally by: Teala Te'Jir

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Edited by: Teala Te''Jir on 08/07/2011 14:26:59


The last space shuttle launch is about to occur. They are at t-minus 20 minutes before the space shuttle Atlantis makes her last flight. :(

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

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Originally by: Abrazzar

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If there were any need to specify the point when the US started to fall, this would be it.

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Originally by: claire xxx

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Originally by: Teala Te'Jir

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Edited by: Teala Te''Jir on 08/07/2011 14:26:59


The last space shuttle launch is about to occur. They are at t-minus 20 minutes before the space shuttle Atlantis makes her last flight. :(

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

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Watching it live from my front yard. I can't see the shuttle sitting on the pad, but the second it hits about 50 feet off the ground it will come into view. I was going to try to get closer, but the good areas are packed with tourists. :(

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Originally by: Atticus Fynch

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Originally by: Draconyx

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Edited by: Draconyx on 08/07/2011 14:55:09
Sad really.

NASA gets less then 1% of the US budget.
And people want to kill it entirely which will do nothing for the budget.
NASA is one of the few organizations that is investing in the future and not looking @ making a profit.

Somewhere there was a quote saying that it costs every US tax payer 5 cents a year to run it.
In that case I have a Dollar here where do I send it ?

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There is no need for space exploration other than scientific curiosity. There is no viable competitor like during the cold war years (yes, the soviets had their own shuttle version which never took off).

I'll bet though that if oil where discovered on the moon, we would have the equivalent of -Millenium Falcon- technology by now just to get to it.

Necessity breeds innovation.

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Originally by: BellaDonna Nyghtshade

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Originally by: Abrazzar

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If there were any need to specify the point when the US started to fall, this would be it.

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I disagree, mate.

I think we can very clearly point to 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, as the true start of the decline of America.

A coup culminated on that day and time, setting in motion a subsequent series of events including "Executive Orders" and specific Supreme Court rulings that completely changed the nature of the Representative Republic that was the United States of America.

Prior to that, those same changes had been attempted several times, going back to F.D.R. and even a bit before, but America didn't really get the death blow until that day in '63 when the opposition simply couldn't / wouldn't wait anymore.

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Originally by: Ciar Meara

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Won't they cancel the launch cause of a slightly cloudy day.

If she makes it today

o7 Bon Voyage

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Originally by: Atticus Fynch

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Originally by: Draconyx

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Edited by: Draconyx on 08/07/2011 14:55:09
Sad really.

NASA gets less then 1% of the US budget.
And people want to kill it entirely which will do nothing for the budget.
NASA is one of the few organizations that is investing in the future and not looking @ making a profit.

Somewhere there was a quote saying that it costs every US tax payer 5 cents a year to run it.
In that case I have a Dollar here where do I send it ?

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There is no need for space exploration other than scientific curiosity. There is no viable competitor like during the cold war years (yes, the soviets had their own shuttle version which never took off).

I'll bet though that if oil where discovered on the moon, we would have the equivalent of -Millenium Falcon- technology by now just to get to it.

Necessity breeds innovation.

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Originally by: Atticus Fynch

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Necessity breeds innovation.

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Originally by: Maddi5on

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here we go

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Originally by: Teala Te'Jir

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Actually it did fly, 15th Nov, 1988. Unmanned, but it did fly.

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