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Discovery's Last Flight
#8925 11/03/10 07:07 PM
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As an avid follower of the space program, tomorrow's launch of Discovery is a bittersweet moment. I was present at the first two landings at Edwards. Launch is at 12:29:43 pm Whitney Zone time. The weather looks bad, though. I'll post the video URL for streaming video when & if it turns up. Apparently, the delay from today to Thursday was caused by a bug in a circuit breaker - as in a real bug. Squish!


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The weather was unseasonably great when I was there three weeks ago. Hope everything works out this week.

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Launch has been delayed to 3:04 WZT on Friday due to weather.


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A NASA video of Discovery's career.





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And a GigaPan image from last night here.


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I got to watch the launch of Magellan Venus probe aboard the Atlantis in 1989. We got VIP seats but it almost never happened. The countdown got to 31 seconds and the mission was scrubbed. There was only a narrow window of a couple of days to get the shuttle to launch Magellan or it would have to wait another 2 years for the right lauch angle to slingslot Magellan to Venus.They fixed the problem and launched within the open widow. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever witnessed.We flew home on a Sunday and the next day the shuttle we saw lauched at Cape Canaveral flew over our heads in SoCal and we saw the support jets and felt the sonic boom as it landed at Edwards AFB.
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/guide9.html

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Shuttle scrubbed til Monday.


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Shuttle scrubbed until end of the month for repairs.


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I, too, am an avid follower of the space program and the thought of Discoverys last flight makes me teary eyed. I have always called Discovery "my" shuttle... she is the ship that flew during both return to flight missions after the Challenger Disaster (launching on my 13th birthday in 1988) and then again after the Columbia disaster in July 2005 (and the first post-Columbia night launch in 2006)...

She is truely a historic "ship".. being the oldest in the fleet... she launched the Hubble, flew the last Mir/Shuttle docking flight, she flew the first female shuttle pilot into orbit, as well as the first African-American spacewalker and took John Glenn back to space (the first sitting member of Congress and also the oldest person at 77 years old)..

All Hail Discovery... God Speed her crew in a successful flight and safe return to Earth...

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On four seperate occasions over the past 25 years I've been in Orlando at the same time a shuttle launch was scheduled. All four times I drove the Bee Line two hours east to watch it, and every single damn time the launch was scrubbed - after I had made it to the coast. I still haven't seen one of these marvelous things go, and I really, really want to!

Flashback: July, 1969 - my parents had taken me on vacation to Daytona Beach (every year, twice a year, for 13 straight years, to be exact). I was 12 and really into the space program - hard not to be at that age and time when it seemed like the cover of every Life, Time, Nat Geo and you-name-it magazines featured NASA stuff. My dad surpised us by taking us to Cocoa Beach to watch the launch of the Apollo 11 mission (first moon landing, to the uninitiated). To this day it is still the grandest, loudest thing I've ever experienced, even from jam-packed railroad tracks 2 miles away. I recall my teeth actually vibrating in my head - even at that distance - from the punch that Saturn V booster packed.

A few years later I attended a Deep Purple concert. The band had just recently established a Guiness world record for loudness (decibel count, I believe), and everyone at the concert left with ears ringing for an hour afterwards from Blackmore's axe and Glover's bass. When my friends could finally hear me, what they heard was "Saturn's louder!!!" They had no clue what I meant.

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Wow Gary that is awesome.What an experience.I was with the designer and builder of the Magellan and we toured Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center and looked at the Apollo museum. In 1989 he said that we no longer had the technology or capability to make an Apollo Saturn V type engine and booster.No one was left that could duplicate the engineering. I found that strange but he was adament that the technology was gone.

Watching a shuttle launch was one of the most amazing things I have ever witnessed.

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I've never seen a shuttle launch outside of television... (and streaming internet when I should have been working)... As a childl my biggest ambition in life was to be an astronaut... I went to the Space Camp program in Hunstville, AL twice (at my own hard earned expense)
I was lucky enough to get to walk on the scaffolding structure that supported one of the main rockets from the shuttle. We, as students, got up and close with the rocket and watched them gimble it and move it around. We then moved a safe distance away and watched them test fire it.... I remember feeling the sound vibrate through my entire body... Gary I can't imagine what it would be like to have an entire rocket system like that...

Growing up in SoCal I remember the twin sonic booms of the re-entry of so many shuttle missions... and as I got a little older and they moved the primary landing site to Florida... watching missions and trying to figure out how to get close enough to watch one of the missions landing at the now secondary site at Edwards. Afterall... it's only 4 hours away from me!!!

Rod.... I find it hard to believe that the man you were speaking with is correct. Afterall... if you look at the schematics and designs for the "next generation" (Constellation Program) of space flight, the AresI and AresV rockets are modeled very closely after the Saturn V rocket and the Orion capsule is loosely modeled after the Apollo type capsules (although why we are intending on going back to the capsule set-up is still beyond me)... anyways... our wonderful President seems to think that the space program isn't worth it and is trying to cancel the Constellation program anyways... it makes me sad to think that my grandchildren won't know an American Space Program as they are born and grow up.... and to think that stories of a space launch will be as much history to them as stories about the Apollo Moon landing are to me...

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I was in Israel when the first Israeli astronaut -- Ilan Ramon -- went up with the Columbia (I still have a scrapbook with him smiling as he entered the shuttle)It was not just another ho-hum shuttle launch as it was in the US, for the most part. The embattled country (Israel in the middle of yet another intifada)was stunned into to a mourning, screeching halt when the Columbia was lost with all aboard.


The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.
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Originally Posted By: SoCalGirl
anyways... our wonderful President seems to think that the space program isn't worth it and is trying to cancel the Constellation program anyways... it makes me sad to think that my grandchildren won't know an American Space Program as they are born and grow up.... and to think that stories of a space launch will be as much history to them as stories about the Apollo Moon landing are to me...


Don't fret Chris - our kids and grandkids will be able to enjoy the sights, sounds and wonders of a vibrant space exploration program. They might want to become fluent in Mandarin and/or Cantonese to appreciate it fully, though . . .

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Originally Posted By: Bee
I was in Israel when the first Israeli astronaut -- Ilan Ramon -- went up with the Columbia (I still have a scrapbook with him smiling as he entered the shuttle)It was not just another ho-hum shuttle launch as it was in the US, for the most part. The embattled country (Israel in the middle of yet another intifada)was stunned into to a mourning, screeching halt when the Columbia was lost with all aboard.


Bee, the Challenger and Columbia disasters are both in that group of events that I can distinctly remember where I was and what I was doing when they occurred or were announced. Right up there with the JFK assassination, 9/11, John Lennon's murder, Reagan's shooting, and a few other major events that will always be with me. That was a very sad day, especially after having had one shuttle accident already.

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I was in disbelief also but the gentleman I am referring to was a Rocket Scientist named Art Gussner. He was a patient of mine and we went with his family and took my family to watch the lauching of the Magellan which he designed and built for JPL.
In the Cold War race to build the first rocketship to reach the moon was really a military/political exhibition to demonstrate the ability to to launch ICBM's. The U.S. and the USSR were in a race against each other to grab the top German rocket scientists following WWII.The Russians were far ahead of the U.S. in rocket technology. Kennedy's commitment to the space program along with German rocket scientists is the only reason we succeeded.One would think that we could look at our SaturnV's and reverse engineer but apparently it is way more complex than that.Essentially the technology to launch a rocket to the moon died with those rocket scientists.Art stated simply that in the year 1989 the U.S.no longer had the scientists and technological capacity to launch a capsule with a rocket. I took his educated opinion as truth.Still hard to fathom but I believed him.Remember this was in 1989 and maybe things have changed.

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Originally Posted By: Bee
It was not just another ho-hum shuttle launch as it was in the US, for the most part.

Hiya Bee... let me tell you, no matter what anyone else says.. there never has been and never will be anything ho-hum about a shuttle launch. Sadly I know that there are many who take this technology for granted and don't see anything special about it. Those are the ignorant ones who don't care to look beyond the fact that the shuttle looks like an airplane. If we can fly an airplane why shouldn't we be able to fly a shuttle? Please know that many, many of us mourned with Israel when Ilan Ramon went down with his shipmates on Columbia .


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Art stated simply that in the year 1989 the U.S.no longer had the scientists and technological capacity to launch a capsule with a rocket. I took his educated opinion as truth.Still hard to fathom but I believed him.Remember this was in 1989 and maybe things have changed.


Rod~ Ok.. I know in 1989 when I first started hearing about the "next generation" systems that NASA was looking at developing for the space program that they were NOT looking at the rocket/capsule type of system. They were looking at bigger, "better" shuttle/glider/plane type systems. (In December of 1989 I went to an "astronaut" training program at Space Camp and they did a lecture series on the next generation... fascinating!)I'm sure they haven't just pulled it out of their tushes as a last minute idea... but it hasn't been until the last 4 or 5 years that I've really started hearing a lot about an actual operational (and feasible) version of a rocket/capsule system to take us back to flight after the Shuttles get decommissioned....

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The Saturn series (Saturn 1, 1B, V) is the only one to have a perfect operational record. There were some glitches, but no failures. Thank you Werner von Braun

Stages to Saturn is a good technical book, but hard to find. I like space books as much as mountain books.

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Originally Posted By: Harvey Lankford
The Saturn series (Saturn 1, 1B, V) is the only one to have a perfect operational record. There were some glitches, but no failures. Thank you Werner von Braun

Stages to Saturn is a good technical book, but hard to find. I like space books as much as mountain books.


Harvey...

I almost tried to call you on that... and then it registered that the only problems they had with the Saturn series of rockets weren't with the rockets, but with the capsules attached to the rockets....

Here's hoping that the Constellation project is as safe and successful as the Saturn...

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Bump because today is the day.



Launch blog is here. It starts at 8:30 WZT. Liftoff time set for 1:50 p.m. WZT.

Watch it on your computer here.


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Discovery left (a few seconds late) like a homesick angel. I can breathe now!


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Wasn't that a beautiful launch????

Discovery safely away... 11 days in space and then 2 more launches this year before the program is scrubbed and the fleet decommed.... I have never known a day in my life without an active space program.... and now my grandchildren will just know it as a footnote in their history books...

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I agree with your sentiments, Chris.

To scrub the manned space program is a crying shame!

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Again, another Ga. Tech grad behind the wheel on this one.

John

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I've watched about a hundred launches on the tube, probably as many landings. I was present at the first & second landings at Edwards. Viewed both Challenger & Columbia trip and fall.


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Originally Posted By: catpappy
Again, another Ga. Tech grad behind the wheel on this one.

John


The North Avenue Trade School strikes again!

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I agree with your sentiments, Chris.

To scrub the manned space program is a crying shame!


Amen! As a kid I lived for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs - I was obsessed with them. I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. ceded the initiative in manned space exploration to other nations. Really, really sad.

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Nah, do a search on Burt Rutan. SS1 achieved a higher altitude in less than 10 flights than the X15 did in 99.

Speed in the atmosphere is different. The X15 could melt Inconel.

With enough coin, you can now book a commercial space flight on SS2.


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Originally Posted By: wagga
With enough coin, you can now book a commercial space flight on SS2.


Which is actually one of the options that the government is considering to keep the US in space until the Pres. remembers that he has to allocate money to NASA in order for them to be able to build a new space flight system....

I've watched many launches on TV.. and have never been lucky enough to see a landing... but living here in SoCal have heard more then once the twin sonic booms of re-entry!

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The technology that came from the Space program has changed the way we live. The applications of the technology developed is responsible for so many things that we use in everyday life that came into existence simply because of the space program is mind boggling.The whole concept making things smaller and more powerful ie. batteries, computer chips,circuit boards,computers was largely driven by the space program.
That was a beautiful launch.Picture perfect.

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I have never known a day in my life without an active space program.... and now my grandchildren will just know it as a footnote in their history books...

An active space program is still with us (and, in fact, is just getting "warmed up") -- just not NASA's version of it. The footnote will be only NASA's shuttle program -- a worthy and memorable footnote, to be sure.

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I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. ceded the initiative in manned space exploration to other nations. Really, really sad.

Nothing has been ceded; the only difference is that it is now largely in private hands (with some support from NASA) and not the government alone.

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I've watched many launches on TV.. and have never been lucky enough to see a landing... but living here in SoCal have heard more then once the twin sonic booms of re-entry!

Having previously lived in SoCal, I do remember hearing some of the sonic booms when the shuttles used to land regularly at Edwards AFB (we lived in Palmdale and/or Quartz Hill during that time period).

Also, on one of our visits back to California after we moved to Ohio, one of the shuttle program's top brass attended my mom's large church in Lancaster, and heard about our pending visit, and we were fortunate enough for that person to ask my mom if we would be interested in free VIP passes to attend the landing of one of the shuttles (I think it may have been Atlantis?) at Edwards.

Of course, we took her up on the offer, and aside from having to rise at dark-something-thirty in order to be be in Mojave by, what was it, 5:00 or 6:00 a.m.?, that was one of our special memories. We got to drive our car past all the line of incoming vehicles to a special parking area up front, then hang out with the other invited celebrities (including one TV celebrity) in a special room with food, drinks, etc., while waiting, and then got to go with those same people to a special seating area up front (the equivalent of watching a football game from the 50-yeard line down front), when the shuttle finally was approaching for its landing. We all heard the sonic boom, of course; but watching it land in person was quite special.

Another time, my step-sister, who also worked for the space shuttle program's maintenance division at the time, got us into the shuttle hangar in Palmdale (it was Atlantis again), and we got to walk along the temporary walkway/railing set up all around the shuttle in order to do routine maintenance on it. While they didn't let us inside the shuttle (darn!), we could look in the main entry door and see the inside of it from just a yard or two away. We also got to see a close-up look at the underbelly of that shuttle during the same visit, including the heat shields (my step-sister showed us and let us hold one of the extra heat shield pieces, while explaining how they were built, what they were built of, and how unimaginably delicate they are -- it's nothing short of amazing that they can even take the rigors of reentry, but somehow they do). Also, seeing the rear engines up close and personal is breathtaking. The whole shuttle is huge, and it always struck me as amazing that something like that can even fly (but of course, it can).

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PS - Wagga - Loved the documentary video above on the life of Discovery. Thanks for posting it.


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A rather different view of Discovery's launch.

Stolen from Plane Talking.

"And while it was seen by hundreds of millions of people as plasma screen close ups full of thunderous noise and flames, the last flight of Shuttle Discovery, was also seen, by chance, from the air, by passengers on a United Airlines flight out of Orlando Florida, which just happened to be abeam of the Kennedy Space Center."



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Outstanding! Thanks for posting that.

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Here is a link to live shuttle action. SFW.


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I got to step outside my office and watch the launch live from Orlando. One of the few advantages to living in Florida. On a sad note I also watched the Challenger launch from Orlando on that fateful day and knew right away what happened.
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Burt Rutan on TED.

"4 percent of the people who have left the atmosphere have died. Not a good way to run a business"

Lots of good stuff on TED, by the way.


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Secret military space plane launching tomorrow at 12:30ish WZT.


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Is this the rocket launch that news reports are saying crashed into the Atlantic?

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No. Glory was launched from Vandenberg.

BBC report.


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"New Views of Discovery's Launch from Shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters"

Uploaded by NASAtelevision on Mar 3, 2011

"Video taken by six cameras mounted on Discovery's recovered solid rocket boosters offer unique views of the shuttle's Feb. 24 launch on STS-133."


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Absolutely spectacular views.It is so strange to watch the ocean shoreline and then the earth as the boosters carry the shuttle away from the launch pad.For a second I felt a little sensation that I get looking over ledges,a little fear of heights. Thanks for posting. That was amazing.

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Wagga and Steve,

Thank you for posting the videos of Discovery's last flight. I really enjoyed watching them. I just checked out NASA TV's website and saw a message saying NASA really needs people's help (meaning donations). I would really hate to see space exploration end or the pace to slow because the economy is in such a mess. Knowing the USA is exploring space has been a part of my life as far back as I can remember...sometime in my grade school years. Our government has squandered too many tax dollars on unimportant things over the last 50 years and maybe longer. Funding NASA, I believe, is one of the highest and best uses for our tax dollars. I know we all have benefited from what scientists have learned from exploring space. I can't name all the new inventions or innovations that have come from space exploration but I know there have been many. Maybe some of you can list a few.


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Absolutely amazing -- couldn't stop watching it!
Thanks for posting the vid of the SRB camera views!!


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Discovery will be coming home for the last time at 8:57 WZT today. Here.


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Home safely!


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Picture perfect landing. Beautiful... rest well Old Girl...

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How about this!


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More detail here at The Register.



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That was great. Thanks Dave.

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Endeavour's last launch is coming up, it's planned for the 19th.

The commander's wife is planning to be there for the launch. Not really noteworthy, except that she is Gabby Giffords & she is making a remarkable recovery.

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I'll be traveling... hiking to the bottom of the Grand Canyon actually on that day... I usually watch the launch on TV (or internet)... sadly I won't be able to see this one...

However, I know that they were recently checking the shuttle and external tanks for hail damage from a storm that just passed through....

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight. Even bigger: It's the 50th anniversary of the first person in space. At the height of the Cold War, our adversaries launched a man into space and scared the hell out of the USA. Today, Americans love Yuri. Who would have predicted that in 1961? And who would have predicted that, 50 years later, you would need the Russians to take you to the Space Station?

Meanwhile, 100 years earlier, the Civil War started.

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On another note... the disbursement of the decommed fleet was announced...

--Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida gets Atlantis
--California Science Center in Los Angeles gets the Endeavour
--Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia gets the Discovery
--Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York gets the Enterprise

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I wonder what will become of the shuttle training facility in Houston.


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Last Endeavour flight delayed, now to be launched on April 29th.


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Great video of Discovery launch start to finish in high speed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KZrFC988Thc

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That was so great, thanks, Rod.

Gabrielle should be there to witness her husband's Endeavour shuttle launch.


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Gabrielle has been cleared to attend the launch.


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Here is the NASA site for timing & other info.


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Originally Posted By: wagga

More detail here at The Register.



the full First Orbig movie is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKs6ikmrLgg&feature=player_embedded

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Weather is looking good.


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The other Friday affair that's really out of this world.

From the SMH.


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Wagga, I learned something from this video you posted.... I learned that this Friday's flight is the "next to the last shuttle flight"...I thought it was the last flight.

Yes, this flight is the "other Friday affair".

Personally, I'm going to depend on you to post a video of the launch so I can see it... BECAUSE, at home I'll be recording and watching the OTHER AFFAIR, THE ROYAL WEDDING OF Prince William and Kate AND ALL THE AFTER THE ROYAL WEDDING NEWS SHOWS ON TV.

The difference between boys and girls are Shuttles and Prince & Princesses.


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Launch is now set for 12:47 WZT.

If you enjoyed the Runaway Bride, then you should be happy that Operation Pumpkin is fully planned.

"If Wills reacts fast enough, however, he will be able to chase after his fleeing fiancee for just under half a mile.

"Clarence House wanted a full mile," says our source. "But we said come on, play fair, she's in her wedding dress and there has to be some limit on the overtime budget."
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It's just a pair of pommy toffs getting hitched, you know.


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Endeavour is ready to fly.

"At 10 a.m. NASA Television (www.nasa.gov/ntv) will provide coverage of 42 Progress docking to the International Space Station. STS-134 launch commentary will start on NASA TV at 10:30 a.m. "


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Originally Posted By: lynn-a-roo
Wagga, I learned something from this video you posted.... I learned that this Friday's flight is the "next to the last shuttle flight"...I thought it was the last flight.


The last shuttle launch is scheduled for June....

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Today's launch is delayed for at least 72 hours.

At least Kate didn't do a bolter.


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For Lynn-a-Roo:

Nice Seychelles Blue DB6 MKII Volante. Converted to run on alcohol. Learner driver.



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Earliest opportunity for a launch is now May 8th.


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Today is the 50th anniversary of the USA's first orbital flight.

Earliest flight for Endeavour is now May 10th.

Picture abstracted from SeattlePi.com.



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Thank you, Wagga. I still haven't been able to watch the Royal wedding I recorded because I was out of town, so this picture is the next best thing. What a handsome couple, so full of life and happiness.


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The wedding was as enjoyable as you would expect. Everything went without a hitch. The bride was cool, calm, collected, and drop-dead gorgeous (as was her sister, Pippa, who almost stole the show). The music was wonderful. The Brits are unsurpassed in their pageantry. An occasion such as this shows all that at full tilt. It was well worth watching; enjoyed it all.

I could have probably done without the narration by Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, though; nothing against them personally -- I just thought they overdid the narration a bit -- too much yaking.

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The good video is over on the Silly Jokes thread, I suppose.


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CaT,

I love it that you loved watching the Royal Wedding. The world needs Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses, otherwise future generations will not understand what the faces are on a deck of cards and fantasy books will mean nothing to children and little girls won't be able to dream of being a Princess someday and little boys won't dream of slaying dragons and jesters of the court will cease to exist and what about the ROUND TABLE, we have to have the ROUND TABLE forever and ever, and the knights that sit around the ROUND TABLE...we need our knights especially the knights that save damsels in distress.

Yes, the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Princess Kate means the tradition will live on and it's a wonderful thing.

May God Save the King

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New date is set for May 16th.

"Endeavour is scheduled to launch Monday, May 16 at 8:56 a.m. on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station."



Image above: At Launch Pad 39A, the access door is open on space shuttle Endeavour for technicians to enter the aft area where the Load Control Assembly-2 (LCA-2) is located. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder


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You mean it didn't launch on April 29th...I was wondering why I didn't see anything on the news about the launch. I didn't even get any breaking news emails. Thanks for the heads-up about the May 16th launch. I wonder what it didn't launch 4/29, I guess I have to go do a search now.


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One of two heaters on one of the three APUs failed, mission scrubbed.

"Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters has forecasted a 70% chance of having favorable weather for Endeavour's liftoff scheduled for 8:56 a.m. Monday."

5:56 a.m. WZT. Do you get up early?


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5:56 a.m. WZT. Do you get up early?

I'm sound asleep at that time. I'll set my alarm clock and pray that I don't sleep through it or hit snooze.


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NASA: Shuttle Endeavour 'good to go' for Monday launch.

"With the delay, Endeavour is now scheduled to return to Earth on June 1. That is the same day that Atlantis is slated to roll out to the launch pad, in anticipation of the final mission in the space shuttle program's 30-year history."

Bulldog needs to make the 4:30 a.m. phone call to Lynn-a-roo.


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An interesting CNN opinion piece.

"Space shuttle, you left us far too soon. You'll never be grounded in the hearts of all of us who loved you."

And Gabby Giffords is on site.


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Sailing into fair winds on it's her final historic voyage.

- NASA commentary.

Replays are running on NASA TV.

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Are all the shuttles female?

Thank you for posting the launch, I forgot to set my alarm. My cats kept me up all night so I don't think I would have woke to an alarm if I had set it.


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Bummer, why didn't I think of having Bulldog call me at 4:30 a.m., that would have been the answer to getting me up in time for the launch. Heck, Bulldog could have given all the West Coast WHA members a wake up call. This is a very good reason to have an East Coast friend.


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The shuttles are space ships. All ships are female.

You know, they hide their bottoms, head for the buoys as soon as they reach harbor, and so on.


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Originally Posted By: lynn-a-roo
This is a very good reason to have an East Coast friend.

Good point. I'll have to remember that out here in Ohio (Eastern Time Zone).

wagga - I'm laughing at the all ships are female stuff. Very funny!

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More photos of the shuttle launch from a commercial flight at the washingtonpost.



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Ever since the Wright Flyer it has been considered prudent for airmen to walk around the craft, looking for problems. This is a another way to do it.



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NASA found some damaged tiles. A spacewalk to repair tiles in orbit is a possibity. More here.



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RIP Spirit. NASA finally stops radioing Mars rover Spirit.

"It's all over now for Spirit, the lonely Mars rover stuck fast in a patch of crusty Martian sand.

After a brilliant five-year career gathering evidence that the cold and arid planet may once have been warm and wet, Spirit fell into the trap two years ago, and then its radio fell silent on March 22 last year.
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More here, with pictures!.


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Shuttle Crew Prepares to End Mission

"Commander Mark Kelly will fire Endeavour's engines at 1:29 a.m. to slow the orbiter enough for it to fall out of orbit and begin the last leg of its trip, concluding with a touchdown on runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at 2:35 a.m."

So, touchdown at 11:35 WZ time. Lynn-a-roo won't have to get up early!


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New Toy!



You can download it here. It needs Google Earth, but we all have that - right?


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The landing blog is here.

If the Google Earth toy freezes, just close/save/start up again.

And NASA TV is up & running.

And, right now, Atlantis is being moved out to the launch pad.


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Picture perfect landing... fabulous! Welcome home Endeavor....

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NASA sets the date for the last Atlantis launch. The very last Shuttle launch.

Atlantis and Crew Prepared for July 8 Liftoff.


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I was hoping that our Space and Science Center down here in San Diego would have a special viewing event for the launch. Several years ago (25 or so) they had a special viewing late one night for the Voyager flyby of one of the further planets (I was thinking it was Mars, but wrong... and looking at the timeline for Voyager II Jupiter and Uranus are to early in my life to have been remembered... I remember that it was shortly after the Return to Flight by the Discovery after the Challenger disaster.. so it must have been the flyby of Neptune in 1989)... anyways... the Space and Science Center had monitors set up all over the place inside the museum and recieved a "live" feed of the images sent back from Voyager... I was really hoping they'd do something for the Atlantis Launch... but.. their official word today is:

"As the launch is at 8:26 am local time, and the museum doesn't open until 10:00, we won't be doing anything"...

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Engineering Review Board Meeting Ends With Decision to Continue With Launch Preparations. Details here.

"As engineers prepared to move the Rotating Service Structure away from Atlantis, a severe thunderstorm passed overhead, delivering rain and lightning that produced two strikes near the launch pad."

Here is the NASA TV link.

And CNN's take.

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atlantis deep zoom:


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another view



there are more angles on the site when you open it up via this link and look at the related stuff below:

Atlantis photosynths

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http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv for live HD video coverage

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Fish, thanks, remarkable photos.

Here is a complete post from Plane Talking. I tried to just quote fragments - didn't work. Ben's post exactly mirrors my thoughts, so here is the whole thing.

The last Space Shuttle and some bitter thoughts.

"Amid the close local focus on airline affairs in Australia this week the last Space Shuttle has been launched into orbit, where it will dock at the International Space Station.

It is for this writer, a bitter moment, a moment when the US space program confronts the optimism with which, like so many, I saw the first satellites and their final stage rockets glide through the fields of stars, believing that in my lifetime the first manned interstellar missions might set forth, never mind see the establishment of bases on the moon, Mars and perhaps an asteroid.

The promises of space travel were first spoken for this writer at a time when the great ocean liners carried far more passengers than aeroplanes, and even in this country, it had been but a short time since Vickers Viscounts and Douglas DC6Bs could routinely fly over the Snowy Mountains between Sydney and Melbourne, rather than past them, as had been the then recent case with DC4 Skymasters.

As a 'half' American, the sorrow is somewhat deeper too. Transport systems are creations of social, economic and political change. They facilitate mobility, wealth, knowledge and experience, and from an airliner, or a space craft, no borders are visible.

But when a society retreats into itself, as I see happening in my experience of America, and I see starting to happen in these mean spirited times in Australia, then these simple dreams of younger days crumble and fade.

Transport in America is in disarray, whether by road, rail or air, and this is true of its innovations in space transport in particular, which are no longer considered useful to a society where the anti-science tendency actually translates into political power, where the country is insolvent, and an angry sense of denied entitlement and bewilderment seems to infuse many of those in its major parties.

There is some reason to be optimistic that the rise of privately funded space transport companies will nurture talent and innovation. But on a day when the last Shuttle has lifted off, those ventures seem like candles fluttering in the wind.
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According to these two there is hope. Will the US lead or follow?

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer...amp;m=137681438

Nice cockpit vid of Atlantis from a couple years back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRMO88Xv_7A

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Whilst waiting for Atlantis to head home, here is an oldie but goodie from 1982.


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Rod sent me this...

Here's a nice 360 panorama view of   Discovery's flight deck

Move your mouse around to change the view.

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Did anyone see the air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror?

Also, with all the high tech that goes into shuttle design, you'd think they'd give the astronauts something better to sit on. But what, after 10 min. or so they're weightless, so I guess it's not a big deal.

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Thanks Steve. Pretty awesome.

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Crew Prepares for Final Shuttle Landing

"Space shuttle Atlantis' wakeup song for landing day was "God Bless America" by Kate Smith, played at 9:29 p.m. EDT, for the entire crew and all the men and women who have worked for the shuttle program over the years. Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim will begin deorbit preparations a little before 1 a.m. EDT for their planned landing at 5:56 a.m. at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida."

That's 2:56 WZ time.


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Home safely.


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Somewhat of a coincidence that July 20th was the 42nd anniversary of the first humans landing on the moon.


Journey well...
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Mission complete: Atlantis returns, ends shuttle era.

"This photo of the shuttle Atlantis' re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere was taken this morning from the International Space Station.
(Credit: NASA astronaut Michael Fossum)
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"Atlantis swoops to a tire-smoking touchdown this morning at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
(Credit: Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now)
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Discovery is mummified and on the way to the Smithsonian. Article here.



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This is her final flight.

From CNN.



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Some more photos:

Plane Talking.

FlightBlogger.


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In a few hours, a new era of private space travel should begin.

Article here.

"On Saturday, a company called SpaceX is scheduled to launch the first private mission to the International Space Station, demonstrating a freight-carrying capability NASA gave up when it retired its fleet of space shuttles in July."

"Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket, its Dragon capsule filled with food, supplies and science experiments, is scheduled for 4:55 a.m. ET from the SpaceX launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Three days later, astronauts will use a robotic arm to attach the Dragon capsule to the station. Cargo will be unloaded, return cargo loaded in, and the capsule will return to splash down in the Pacific."


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Didn't happen. Painful listening to the announcer unsay "Liftoff". Trying again on Tuesday, maybe.


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Enterprise Lands in New York. Final resting place.


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A sad note.

Sally Ride passed away today at age 61, of pancreatic cancer.

More details at npr.


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A sad note.

Sally Ride passed away today at age 61, of pancreatic cancer.

More details at npr.


Ride, Sally Ride


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Endeavour is on her way home to the WhitneyZone! Last flight of the last shuttle.

Details at CNN.

"On Thursday, Endeavour is scheduled to fly over the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico on its way to Edwards Air Force Base outside Los Angeles.

On Friday, Endeavour is slated to embark on a tour of Northern California, dipping over NASA's Ames Research Center, Sacramento and San Francisco before heading back to Los Angeles, where it will become an exhibit at the California Science Center.
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A tentative flyover of JPL Friday morning, Sept. 21, will highlight the final journey of space shuttle Endeavour, as it is flown from Florida to Los Angeles atop a 747 aircraft en route to its final home at the California Science Center.

Due to weather and other factors affecting the shuttle's ferry flight, NASA has not announced exact times for flyovers in Southern California. However, on Wednesday the agency said that "any time after 10:30 a.m. on Friday," Southern Californians could watch for flyovers at landmarks including JPL, downtown Los Angeles, Disneyland, the Getty Center, Griffith Observatory and Los Angeles International Airport. The shuttle and 747 are expected to land at LAX at about 11 a.m. Friday.

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Alan K, any chance you can get a photo of the flyover?

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Alan K, any chance you can get a photo of the flyover?

I'm hoping to give it a shot.

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Latest news from NASA.

"Arrival at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base is scheduled for approximately noon PDT. NASA Television will air live coverage of today's landing at Edwards Air Force Base and tomorrow's sunrise departure. NASA TV is available on the Web at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html"

Flightaware doesn't seem to track live - try NASA906 for the flight number. 906 is actually the Talon T38 escort.

Edit: Arrival at Dryden is 12:20 - 1:00 today. See NASA TV.


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Endeavour Ferry Flight Given 'Go' for California Flyover
Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:54:26 AM PDT

NASA Managers have given a "go" for the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, carrying space shuttle Endeavour, to depart Edwards Air Force Base and begin a four-and-a-half hour flyover of northern California and the Los Angeles basin.

Weather is forecast to be clear for the entire flight.

NASA Television will air live coverage of the departure at 8 a.m. PDT. Takeoff is planned for 8:15 a.m.

The SCA and Endeavour will salute NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and the Edwards Air Force Base area after takeoff with a low flyby northbound to Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Any time after 9:30 a.m. PDT, watch for Endeavour from viewing locations that include the Bay Area Discovery Museum, Chabot Space and Science Center, the California State Capitol, Exploratorium, Lawrence Hall of Science and Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Next the aircraft will travel south, making a pass over NASA's Ames Research Center and Vandenberg Air Force Base before heading into the Los Angeles area. Any time after 11:30 a.m., watch for flyovers of Endeavour passing regional landmarks such as its future home at the California Science Center, Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, Disneyland, The Getty Center, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles City Hall, the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, Malibu Beach, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, the Queen Mary, Universal Studios and Venice Beach, among others.

Finally, the SCA and Endeavour will land about 12:45 p.m., at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for an arrival ceremony before Endeavour is taken off the 747. The orbiter will be transported to the California Science Center next month.

The exact timing and path of the ferry flight will depend on weather conditions and operational constraints. Some planned flyovers or stopovers could be delayed or canceled.

Social media users are encouraged to share their Endeavour sightings using the hashtags #spottheshuttle and #OV105, Endeavour's vehicle designation.


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I was driving in Burbank, when I saw it circling the city.

UNBELIEVABLY H U G E

Really cool.

All sorts of people were on the street to see, cars pulling over (like me) to watch.

Quite something.

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JPL today (maybe I should have brought a better camera, but 'tis a poor craftsman that blames his tools).




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And so it came to pass that a small mountaineering forum became the best source on the Internet for original Shuttle shots.


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> And so it came to pass that a small mountaineering forum became the best source on the Internet for original Shuttle shots.

Not to mention SierraNevada's picture and video posted in the other forum:   Space Shuttle Flyover

Originally Posted By: SierraNevada
Watched the last flight from my rooftop on its way to an LA museum.




And his video:

Endeavor Forever
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Perfect photo by a coworker from the 14-story rooftop of the CA Resources Building. Endeavour forever...Godspeed


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The story from The Reg.

"As one watcher was heard to tell his wife over his mobile phone, "Honey, I just said goodbye to an American icon." "

Do read the comments.


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Found on Jalopnik.



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Since you like space stuff so much you might like the movie "The Dish" about the Apollo 11 Mission. This movie was made in Australia.


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Wagga

Since you like space stuff so much you might like the movie "The Dish" about the Apollo 11 Mission. This movie was made in Australia.

Here is the link to imdb.


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Watched some Endeavour progress today - a Mach 25 craft moving at 2 mph - at best.

lynn-a-roo: If you liked "The Dish", I'm sure you will love "Red Dog".


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I LOVED ' [u]The Dish '[/u] ..I saw it on a flight....BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER WATCHED ON AN AIRPLANE. I had never heard of the movie before...I had never seen it advertised on TV or seen it playing at any theater near my home. I think it would be a safe bet that one of the pilots liked this movie and had it played for the passengers. I have been searching for this movie for the longest time and just found it this week. It is now OUT OF PRINT. I read that this movie was a huge hit in Australia in 2000. It's a good movie for the whole family too see if I remember correctly...I don't recall there being any sex...violence ..or foul language. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE. TWO HIKING POLES POINTED UP TOWARDS THE SUMMIT OF MT. WHITNEY!



Hey Steve C. ..... can you add a TWO HIKING POLES UP graphic to the happy face symbol section?






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Wagga, that was an amazing video. Astonishing to think that I am in that (in miniscule form), looking up!

Last night, I went down to see the shuttle being moved on city streets. I ended up walking at least 5 miles to get to it, and ended up not seeing it move, as they were some sort of equipment repair for a few hours.

What was VERY interesting was the thousands upon thousands of people down there. Along the route, people had set up chairs in their yards and on their roofs, there were people cooking and selling food, it was a real festival atmosphere. Many, many kids.

Two very notable things: everyone was very friendly and courteous, and it was a very safe feeling situation, although not a good part of town. I saw no alcohol at all, and

I talked to several police (who were very visible and present), who told me that they'd had NO incidents at all.

I came away with the feeling that they should have scheduled this to take a week.

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I checked out the Red Dog link...looks like a wonderful movie...I hope it has a good ending....I love animals sooooo much....if I cry I want to cry happy tears...not sad ones.


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Time-lapse video: Space shuttle Endeavour's crosstown journey through L.A. - crosstown journey

Very cool!!


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