DISCOVERY LIFT OFF!

[beana51]

Discovery: From Hangar to Last Liftoff

This is the stuff you DON'T see. And after next year, you won't see...period.

Note: The video is silent...until Discovery lifts off from the launch pad.

This is fabulous to be able to witness the procedure. I don't believe they've EVER shown this before...especially in such detail!


(http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KZrFC988Thc)http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KZrFC988Thc

[hey_moe]

WOW! Now that is something to watch.

[RobH]

Very cool Beana. Thank you!

[TeaSea]

This will be viewed in the future as the time when Man dared to dream, to reach for the stars, to make those dreams a reality.

And the future will wonder whatever happened to all that........

[Dain Arns]

This will be viewed in the future as the time when Man dared to dream, to reach for the stars, to make those dreams a reality.

And the future will wonder whatever happened to all that........

No. No they won't.
They'll be too busy taking multiple pics of their 'junk', sending texts to each other, and posting inconsequential information about their lives to a social networking site while watching 3D "reality" shows, or jumping off buildings, to ever consider what could have been and what greatness there once was.

[stiz]

And the future will wonder whatever happened to all that........

cold war "ended" and there wasn't really any need to control space anymore ;)

[Kiwikat]

I wouldn't be so pessimistic. We just sent a 1T rover to Mars. The future space program may be different, but I don't think it is going to disappear.


The budget is definitely an issue though. I'd much rather see us dumping large portions of our budget into rockets and satellites than bombs. :mixedsmi: