A farewell to the Space Shuttle program

[mDust]

Live ustream of launch if anyone wants to watch:
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv#utm_c...medium=6540154
Should launch at 11:26AM today.

[x88x]

And lo have I borne witness to the beginning of the end of the independent US space program.

[x88x]

Thought this was rather appropriate.

[Twigsoffury]

Thought this was rather appropriate.

ISS and STS can be seen chasing each other across the night sky on the 26th.


http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata...=United+States

just pick your state and city (other countries are available to for yall outside of the US)

my bad its the 16th not the 26th.

[TheMainMan]

A ten minute window at 4am, I think I'll pass. Cool site though to show you what you can see.

[billygoat333]

weak.

[CorsePerVita]

Realistically, I think with everyone complaining about the budget and everything, a temporary hold off may not be a bad thing. I have no doubt that it'll come back at some point. Lots of good things have come out of space. Cryo treatment came from space. Anyone remember that? It's used heavilly on race car applications. My understanding is that it was discovered when metal was noticed to have structural properties that were far stronger from temperatures. So out of curiosity was replicated here on our good ol' rock and they discovered that the properties of metal could be strengthened by cryo treatment. We're talking a good amount too!

I remember reading a really funny article about a place in seattle that does it, and the guy put one of his razor blades for his mach 3 shaver in the treatment and the blade lasted him like 4 months.

So to say going to space is pointless, well, sorry Mr. Obama. Not true.

However, I'm sure we'll see it come back again at some point. I do like the comment though about exploring the oceans. I mean, hell, how much have we NOT explored of the oceans?

Sucks that it's been ended, at least for now. Mankind will always be curious. So long as that is a fact, space will always be there and we'll always want to go there.

[diluzio91]

Realistically, I think with everyone complaining about the budget and everything, a temporary hold off may not be a bad thing. I have no doubt that it'll come back at some point. Lots of good things have come out of space. Cryo treatment came from space. Anyone remember that? It's used heavilly on race car applications. My understanding is that it was discovered when metal was noticed to have structural properties that were far stronger from temperatures. So out of curiosity was replicated here on our good ol' rock and they discovered that the properties of metal could be strengthened by cryo treatment. We're talking a good amount too!

I remember reading a really funny article about a place in seattle that does it, and the guy put one of his razor blades for his mach 3 shaver in the treatment and the blade lasted him like 4 months.

My step dad does this. lol... The difference is impressive... If anyone needs it done hit me up and I'll supply you his info.

[CorsePerVita]

Actually, I'd be interested.

[diluzio91]

I'll make a post in the trading post section, Send me a PM, I'll talk to him about it today.