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[Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography), Spaceflight Now]

1 posted on 04/18/2012 8:13:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

The control sticks look like the stick shift in my Jeep.


3 posted on 04/18/2012 8:28:33 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: SunkenCiv

At the time, the most complex machine ever built by man. Still impressive testimony to American Exceptionalism.


5 posted on 04/18/2012 8:52:36 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: SunkenCiv

Good bye manned space flight! Good bye space exploration!

Hubble is expected to last until 2014 with a replacement that is now up in the air...

Obama now thinks NASA’s #1 goal should be diversity, NOT exploring the heavens.

Sad. Sad. Sad. That is what I think when I look at this photo.


6 posted on 04/18/2012 9:09:55 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (The Road to Ruin is Always Kept in Good Repair)
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To: SunkenCiv

Okay is this just wildly cool or what? This is what American exceptionalism looks like President Grovel.


8 posted on 04/18/2012 9:37:16 PM PDT by hatfieldmccoy (It's not racism..... it's probability, actuarial tables, statistics. Facts are stubborn things.)
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