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- polarbobbear, on 12/01/2008, -0/+13I was skiing in Colorado once and just happened to look up and got to see the space shuttle on the back of its 747 with three F-16 escorts flying just a couple thousand feet above. That was very cool.
- rbalik, on 12/01/2008, -0/+12Yes, in the very far future. But for now, I'd like it if things like this were actually covered more by the media and not less.
- nightfright, on 12/01/2008, -1/+12As I was waiting for my train today around 1:20pm I heard the sonic boom. It was awesome. That is all.
- Medicamusic, on 12/01/2008, -11/+20They must have been so high at 4:20... landing at 4:25 and all...
- RogerStrong, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8We've already been there. After the first few shuttle flights it was hard to find anything in the news about them.
The Challenger disaster changed that, making space look dangerous again. That and there's a whole lot more video of each flight available now to put in news stories. - deadapostle, on 12/01/2008, -0/+8The only thing about Digg that saddens me is that stories like this one take 20 hours to reach the front page, so it's behind the times. I'm not complaining about the format, though. Digg is awesome at what it does, but it's not a "breaking news" website.
- Erectile, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7Blow it out your ass.
- Zippo, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7Welcome home, boys.
- derekmas10, on 12/01/2008, -1/+7I'm so glad they landed at Edwards, 'cause there are few images I love more than the dry-humping appearance of the Shuttle getting flown back home.
- BigManOnCampus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+6The shuttle was supposed to accomplish that very thing.
- Kinsbane, on 12/01/2008, -1/+6Glad they're back safe.
- jumpjet701, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5that is bad ass.
- notman, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5So you're saying you wouldn't go for a ride in one?
- HeDiggMe, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5http://www.instantrimshot.com/
- Garmonbozzia, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5And girl. It launched with 2 women. One stayed up. One landed.
- McMaster88, on 12/01/2008, -1/+6careful with that joke its an antique.
- ishkabum, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5MISSION IS GREAT SUCCESS
- Erectile, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Digg is just too slow for this kind of stuff sometimes.
I'm glad it was a success. - Erectile, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3There was very little interest even in Apollo 13 until its fuel tank exploded.
- jumpjet701, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3Whew! (wipes brow)
- bubba9999, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3I don't understand why they didn't wait one more day - the weather in FL is fine today. How much does it cost to fly it home again??
- junkneo, on 12/01/2008, -3/+6Hope there will soon be a day when every launch and landing of a space craft will not be news.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3I have been watching the shuttle and ISS at dusk for the last few days. They are quite an extraordinary sight. With binoculars you can clearly see the ISS solar arrays.
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ci ... - ishkabum, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3SORRY
- airwalkery2k, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2I was out in my front yard a little over a year ago--a house right next to an air force base, and I saw the 747 piggyback landing. It was so close I could read "Atlantis" on the side of the shuttle. Totally a coincidence I was out there that day, but apparently there was some big event with it landing I didn't know about.
- jkimcv60, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2I felt the sonic boom yesterday and thought it was a bomb until I saw the news that shuttle had landed in CA. Very cool!!!
- borninda818, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Yeah my house pulsed and everyone on my street went outside to see what exploded.
- Zippo, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Sounds like my weekend.
- Erectile, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Oxygen tank, I should've said.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2True, but there is that 1% chance that the returning astronauts will be incinerated, and you want to be watching if that happens.
- twizhimself, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2the sonic booms scared the poop out me..i was outside trying to fix my car , heard (and felt the boom) and thought my car slid of its jack stands!!
- spritom, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2I dunno. But NASA is known for signing off in triplicate anything that is going to be said/shown in public. The image thing is a priority. The movie Apollo 13 touched on it with the astronauts' families being "happy, thrilled, and proud."
For example, the launch of STS-126, the phrase "preparing our home in space for a larger international family" sounded pretty scripted to me (it's at 0:23 in the launch video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFThy7ujYEY
Not that I'm knocking NASA, they're doing an excellent job. But image appears to be an item on their list. - spritom, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Welcome back STS-126! Good show Ferg & Co.!
Question for Ferg, did you remember to plug in your A/C hose this time? :) - Laiden, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Your Caps Lock is broken.
- asgardshill, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Dugg just so I can throw in a shameless reminder about the conjunction of the Moon, Saturn and Mars tonight at dusk. If your skies are clear, you're in for a treat.
- JasonCox, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Pot joke + Space Shuttle = Fail.
- TigerStar337, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2This is old news. Digg can be as slow as the telegraph.
- trollick, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1***** thing scared me with its sonic boom.
- Sil3ncer7, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1$100,000 tool bag??? And here I thought Snap-on was expensive.
Glad there back on the ground safe - spritom, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I was watching it live yesterday.
- Rothbardosaurus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1I didn't know the British built a space shuttle.
...wait, my mistake. It really is spelled that way. How odd. But then again, it is named after an 18th century ship. - harisund, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1I don't get it :(
- TyrannousDotNet, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1ill give you a thumbs up, but im not sure if i should.
- spritom, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Like most Extreme Makeovers, they buy their tools at Sears.
- spritom, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1"Keep them at 20,000. No, feet."
- asgardshill, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1"(Gregory) Chamitoff, Stefanyshyn-Piper and astronaut Donald Pettit did not accompany Ferguson when he spoke at day's end, but Ferguson said they were "just fine." "
Sensors detect lame and facile explanation off the port bow, Captain. I can understand Chamitoff not being there at the post-mission presser as he probably felt like a zillion-ton steamroller had hit him from being back in Earth's gravity, but where were Stefanyshyn-Piper and Pettit? (If you'll recall, Piper was the mission specialist who lost that $100,000 toolbag on the spacewalk). I have to wonder if her skipping the presser was NASA's way of airbrushing disgraced personages out of official photographs like they used to do in the old Soviet Union?
Granted you can't exactly say, "They're not here because they're both puking their guts out right now", but a little more transparency and a little less coyness would be welcome from a program that I am helping to pay for. - justanotherday, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1I think it's far more likely that the consensus was that the astronaut who was a Navy diver (familiar with getting your land legs back, the bends, etc) and the astronaut who spent 6 months on the space station himself and thus knows what Chamitoff is feeling right now would be good to have around the astronaut who's just come back from 6 months in space.
I doubt NASA cares that much about a lost tool bag. And, if so, why would Pettit be forced out too? He didn't lose a tool bag.
I think people are reading *way* too much into stuff. - asgardshill, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1I don't believe that Pettit was forced out; my only gripe was the coyness and hyper-cuteness in the way the explanation for his and Piper's absence was handled. Chamitoff is presumably enough of a professional to not require the presence of two other crewmembers to hold his hand and cluck their tongues during the presser.
And I guess we'll see how much NASA cares about a drifting tool bag that will remain a danger to anything in orbit for years the next time they hand out mission specialist assignments. If Piper gets a seat on another Shuttle mission, I'll eat my hat. And those opportunities are getting rarer and rarer as the Shuttle's retirement gets closer and closer. There's a lot of highly-trained people who DIDN'T let tool bags go adrift in the pipeline.
NASA certainly won't stand Piper up against the wall and shoot her for this. But I think its safe to say that her spacefaring career is over and that she'll get a nice safe ground billet for the duration of her career.. - Quake120, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Not 'there', 'They're'.
They're is the same as 'they are'.
Glad they are back on the ground safe.
Grammar. It's a useful skill. - BristolMyLove, on 12/21/2008, -0/+1I was eating a burrito when I heard it!
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