Time for another shuttle launch...

I can watch it from the comfort of my own back yard too. But, like I've said before, you see one launch, you've seen them all.
 
I was there, babies!!! It was truly something to be seen live. The video does not do it justice. Loved it. :)
 
Ummm...for the shuttle launch. Come on tommy, keep up here. :)

Drove down last fri, stayed a couple of days with friends in Savannah, now in a hotel in cocoa beach. Driving back up tomorrow and stopping in Charleston to see another friend. Be back in NYC sun night.

There are only 14 shuttle launches left and I want to catch some more before they retire it for something much less visionary coming up...:(
 
I was out there but didn't get to see the launch since my crew wanted to try to get an early flight back to NY but we wound up waiting for 4 hours anyways. :(
Next time I guess or I will go watch Marks.
 
back in NY now. Stopped at the National Archives to see the Constitution and Declaration on the way back, as well as the house Stonewall Jackson died in (I am a Civil War geek too).

But you really should go see a shuttle launch. It is amazing and the shuttle is such a visionary project. I grew up with it, studied it all my life, and now finally have gotten to see one off.

For the next phase of human space flight, they are basically going back to the older way of doing things with the Orion. Basically a capsule on a rocket. I guess it's cheaper and all, but...sigh...

Anyway, go to the nasa page and check out all of the cool stuff they do, along with JPL, ESA, etc. In fact, the sat night before the shuttle launch, they sent off the Phoenix, another Mars probe designed to land near the pole, dig into the ice, and analyze what it finds under there. Pretty awesome. And MESSENGER is on its way to Mercury (great movie of its Venus flyby here, and the Hubble and Chandra and all the rest.

Current missions here: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html

P.S. - Aram, what's with the new name????
 
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NASA. Now there's a collosal waste of money. How much does it cost each time they launch one of those rotting, oversized trash barrels?? A few hundred million I bet. And what the hell are they doing up there? Silly experiments like watching cockroaches poop in zero G? I can't think of one scientific experiment they've done up there that has led to any serious social transformation or human benefit. I have a suspicion that what NASA is really doing is weaponizing space and maintaining super secret satellites for the NSA and the NRO--hey, sounds like it would make a good movie!
 
well, it's no secret that part of the original shuttle requirement was that it could accommodate military hardware.

I really hope that was a joke post.
 
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