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Space Shuttle Discovery Landing Live Thread (11:57 am est 03/09/11)
03/09/11 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 03/08/2011 5:43:12 PM PST by KevinDavis

Well this is final live thread of the Space Shuttle Discovery.

I'm going to miss seeing those birds..


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 112th; bho44; bhonasa; nasa; shuttlediscovery; smithsonian; space; spaceshuttle
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To: cripplecreek

An end of an era.


81 posted on 03/09/2011 9:07:59 AM PST by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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To: NonValueAdded
"Holy carp, I am fantastical bummed out. This is almost like the death of a loved one."

Yes, a successful mission, but a sad moment. Obama is probably asking what's for lunch and, somewhere, Putin is smiling wider and wider as soon he will have the only way we can go into space,

82 posted on 03/09/2011 9:09:30 AM PST by Truth29
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To: cripplecreek

Could this be the begining of the end for NASA?


83 posted on 03/09/2011 9:10:09 AM PST by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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To: Ramius

Aging, just like me. :(


84 posted on 03/09/2011 9:12:14 AM PST by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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To: Ramius

Tombstone for America’s space program.


85 posted on 03/09/2011 9:13:47 AM PST by Carley (WISCONSIN STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARAB STREET. UGLY AND VIOLENT)
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To: Biggirl

Obama’s directive to NASA to make outreach to Muslims their highest priority was a good candidate for “the beginning of the end for NASA”...


86 posted on 03/09/2011 9:14:26 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Zeppo

You got it. When Obama decided to put that silly directive out, that was ONE SIGN it was the begining of its end. Outreach is NOT a job for NASA.


87 posted on 03/09/2011 9:16:54 AM PST by Biggirl ("The Best Of Times, The Worse Of Times", Charles Dickens)
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Here’s a big ping to all the engineers and support teams who dreamed, designed, built and maintained Discovery. What a great space flight vehicle!

http://www.space.com/10942-space-shuttle-discovery-construction-engineers.html


88 posted on 03/09/2011 9:17:01 AM PST by Nobel_1 (bring on the Patriots!)
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To: Renegade

Nah, I’m up in East Tennessee.. Awfully glad the folks are back safe and sound, and really proud of ‘em!


89 posted on 03/09/2011 9:26:04 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-Free zones are playgrounds for felons)
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To: KevinDavis

One down.

Two to go.

Good job Discovery; thanks for giving us something to be proud of.


90 posted on 03/09/2011 9:33:46 AM PST by HKMk23 (It won't be "Justice" until wicked people fry.)
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To: KevinDavis
Unbelievably beautiful. Such an amazing flying machine coming down in those lovely blue Florida skies. It's almost dreamlike the way that baby just floats in there.

This country is throwing away its technological lifeblood by turning away from the stars. Now we have to rely on our former rivals to hitch rides up into LEO. To think that at one time we were a nation that flew people all the way out to the surface of the Moon and back. Now we have to pay through the nose to bum rides from the Russians. Pretty sad. Criminal, actually.

91 posted on 03/09/2011 9:45:03 AM PST by chimera
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To: UB355

Did you get to hear sonic booms or see the shuttle on landing approach ?


92 posted on 03/09/2011 9:48:07 AM PST by Renegade
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To: UB355

Did you get to hear sonic booms or see the shuttle on landing approach ?


93 posted on 03/09/2011 9:48:07 AM PST by Renegade
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To: NautiNurse

I didn’t leave Columbia out because I forgot about it, but because there was no video (at least real-time) of the Shuttle. All we saw was stunned ground control personnel.


94 posted on 03/09/2011 9:54:49 AM PST by Johnny B.
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To: BradyLS

Deke Slayton was a desk jockey govt worker. A double dipper. The Germans did all teh work while desk jockeys at NASA like Deke took the glory.

Sounds like John Glenn. He was never in the league of Armstrong, Lovell, Schirra, Al Shepherd.


95 posted on 03/09/2011 10:35:16 AM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: Zeppo

Well people voted for this and they vote for him every day when they turn on Obama TV.


96 posted on 03/09/2011 10:40:10 AM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: KevinDavis
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97 posted on 04/17/2012 9:22:50 AM PDT by greenhornet68
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