www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov — NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down on Runway 22 at Edwards AFB (EAFB) in California, U.S.A. on 24 May 2009, ending a journey of 5.3 million miles on the STS-125 mission to repair and upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The mission's elapsed time was 12 days, 21 hours, 37 minutes, 9 seconds. Photographer: Carla Thomas, NASA and EAFB
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divinemonkeyMay 25, 2009
And your point is? Shall we talk about the achievements the ESA have made in the last number of years?
oboshoeMay 25, 2009
Most of Armstrong and Aldrins space career was around Earth orbit and in atmospheric tests.Of course the peak of their career was 10 days in 1969, but that doesn't diminish the extraordinary work they did in the years prior which made the moon landing possible.As for todays astronauts. They are no less daring and would in a second go to the moon. We are limited to Earth orbit due to the politicians who would rather spend billions on bankers, instead of billions on mankinds destiny.
nard3456May 25, 2009
Russia, Japan, and America don't make up the entire world.
mpwnsMay 26, 2009
i don't live to far from Edwards air force base. you guys should hear the double sonic boom when in enters it sets off car alarms all the time. it is the 2nd best thing in this dust bowl next to all the weird stuff that fly's around here at night thanks to Lockheed.
Closed AccountMay 26, 2009
Shuttle mission 125. Two failures out of those missions so far. Seems like they're having pretty good successes so far.
ellimistxMay 26, 2009
I love it too, don't get me wrong, but I'm happy they're getting retired before more accidents happen.