Posted on 04/17/2012 12:05:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
I saw it twice from where I was ... I found the experience profoundly depressing.
My husband and two year old daughter were at the Udvar Hazy Museum in Chantilly, VA (right next to Dulles Airport) early this morning to see the fly over. It flew over the first time at about 9:30am, then it did the DC fly over. About an hour later it did two more low and slow fly overs by the museum; it was amazing to see. Everyone cheered at each fly over. I got some pretty awesome pictures (I’d post them but have no idea how). Looking forward to going back on Thursday for the nose to nose ‘meeting’ of Enterprise and Discovery prior to Enterprise’s move to NY.
woke the kids up early this AM to catch the take-off. The first time I saw the shuttle transported on a 747 was on a 13 inch B&W TV with an antennae. Now we watched it on a 58 inch plasma. I had to take my wife to Dulles and we got stuck in the mess around the Udvar Hazy and the airport. There were thousands and thousands of people stopped EVERYWHERE.. that never happens.
despite the complacency, people were proud of the program and this SOB shut it down. Why, so he can buy a few more votes with more welfare entitlements.
Now I have to explain to my kids that thanks to Obama, the dream of being an astronaut is all but gone. But becoming a community organizer and organizing a community that kills young men by the bushel is the new dream job.
Now NASA is a mulsim outreach program with a side job of taking temperature readings for the globull warming agenda while the russians take the lead in space.
What a disgrace.
Irony abounds.. image is not photochopped.. lol
I had a dream once that included an obelisk or skyscraper maybe, a plane teetering on top of it with me on it .. hmmmm .. no giant ape tho. whew. It sure had me going.. One of those things you never forget..
You are aware that it was GWB who canceled the shuttle program? And that Constellation was never properly funded?
Yes it is sad that the shuttles are now “Hanger Queens”, but put blame where blame belongs in this case...
I WAS upset back in 2004. However, there were plans for a new category of launch and exploration vehicles. Money should’ve been appropriated to NASA for future shuttles, rovers, space exploration in general.
I’m not upset directly at Obama for the close of our manned exploration of space, I’m directly upset at Congress for scuttling appropriations. However, it is directly Obama’s fault for all of the BS he’s brought about with social this and welfare that, and Congress was left with little choice but to scuttle the shuttle in order to make ends meet.
If our tax dollars were plentiful and social programs nil, space exploration would be a natural and necessary fit for us considering our defense and communication needs. Considering, however, that Obama is drastically destroying our military and attempting to reign in and control major media, it’s really not necessary to guess as to fault for the destruction of America’s space program: it’s Obama’s fault.
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