Posted on 03/08/2011 5:43:12 PM PST by KevinDavis
An end of an era.
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,
Could this be the begining of the end for NASA?
Aging, just like me. :(
Tombstone for America’s space program.
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”...
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.
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
Nah, I’m up in East Tennessee.. Awfully glad the folks are back safe and sound, and really proud of ‘em!
One down.
Two to go.
Good job Discovery; thanks for giving us something to be proud of.
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.
Did you get to hear sonic booms or see the shuttle on landing approach ?
Did you get to hear sonic booms or see the shuttle on landing approach ?
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.
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.
Well people voted for this and they vote for him every day when they turn on Obama TV.
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