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Shuttle Discovery Ready for Final Flight
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(USA TODAY) - The much-delayed flight of the shuttle Discovery is on schedule to take place Thursday, with the countdown set to begin at 3 p.m. ET today, NASA says.
"She still has a few more miles before she sleeps," said Jeff Spaulding, NASA test director. Discovery has flown more than any other shuttle, including a mission to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. But this is scheduled to be Discovery's last flight as the shuttle program passes into history.
Liftoff is scheduled for 4:50 p.m. Thursday. The launch day weather forecast for Kennedy Space Center in Florida calls for an 80% chance of acceptable conditions, said Kathy Winters, shuttle weather officer.
Discovery's final voyage had been scheduled for November, but fuel tank cracks kept the shuttle grounded for four months.
After returning from the International Space Station, Discovery will be retired and sent to a museum.
"She still has a few more miles before she sleeps," said Jeff Spaulding, NASA test director. Discovery has flown more than any other shuttle, including a mission to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. But this is scheduled to be Discovery's last flight as the shuttle program passes into history.
Liftoff is scheduled for 4:50 p.m. Thursday. The launch day weather forecast for Kennedy Space Center in Florida calls for an 80% chance of acceptable conditions, said Kathy Winters, shuttle weather officer.
Discovery's final voyage had been scheduled for November, but fuel tank cracks kept the shuttle grounded for four months.
After returning from the International Space Station, Discovery will be retired and sent to a museum.
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I wish some of y'all that are within a days ride,would come and see it.It's purely amazing to see and feel..NOTHING shows or illustrates the power of these United States,like a shuttle shot... The Night time ones are the cats * but,4500 will be low enough light to see well,until it gets to 30,000'. By then it'll be in full sun.Still it's one of the most awesome sights man has ever or will ever see!!
its especially hard for a technophile and science nerd like myself to see a good ship like the space shuttle be decommissioned [V]
At least she will not be cut up for scrap, there's some solace in the fact that her continuing mission will be education
that news makes me think of the final scene of Star Trek VI for some reason...
its especially hard for a technophile and science nerd like myself to see a good ship like the space shuttle be decommissioned [V]
At least she will not be cut up for scrap, there's some solace in the fact that her continuing mission will be education
Have U ever witnessed her go LIVE!! I mean hear,see,feel and smell it go?
Their is no more awesome experience, on Gods Earth!!
quote:Originally posted by KSUmarksman
that news makes me think of the final scene of Star Trek VI for some reason...
its especially hard for a technophile and science nerd like myself to see a good ship like the space shuttle be decommissioned [V]
At least she will not be cut up for scrap, there's some solace in the fact that her continuing mission will be education
Have U ever witnessed her go LIVE!! I mean hear,see,feel and smell it go?
Their is no more awesome experience, on Gods Earth!!
I'm afraid that is something I will never experience...barring the infinitescimal chance that I or a colleague invent time travel
U gonna come see it live SF?
I wish some of y'all that are within a days ride,would come and see it.It's purely amazing to see and feel..NOTHING shows or illustrates the power of these United States,like a shuttle shot... The Night time ones are the cats * but,4500 will be low enough light to see well,until it gets to 30,000'. By then it'll be in full sun.Still it's one of the most awesome sights man has ever or will ever see!!
I watched STS-1 Columbia go up on a TV in the machine shop in April 1981. A very proud moment knowing you had something to do with it. I am sorry my eyes will have something in them watching the last flight.
obama has turned his back on every single person that has died since the space race started. I think the engineers can de skin one bird at a time, check for structural cracks, hell look at the B-52 that are still in the air.
Nasa has been gutted, and I hope we can get someone back in office that will support nasa.
I have seen a couple of "final flights." Not good.