Billions for bailouts, but nothing for NASA???

[Lady's Human]

Those overpaid nerds who crashed two one way probes into the moon? (Nice, BTW, heck of a way to show respect to people who drive the economy......those engineers create the tech you play with at home)

1) They're government employees. They probably aren't overpaid.

2) They were conducting crucial research. If there's water on the moon, it means less mass to carry aloft to go elsewhere in the solar system. If there's water up there, it open up the whole solar system to manned exploration at a much, much cheaper cost.

[Lady's Human]

Resuming the countdown in 3:40....CLEAR TO LAUNCH!!!!!

[Lady's Human]

Good job guys!

From paper to liftoff in under three years?



(Now if we could just raise that budget a touch........)

[Cinder & Smoke]

***NICE RIDE, Gang***

I wanna ride again ... how soon's the next shoot??

[Lady's Human]

Psst , Phred.......diddja seee Atlantis on the pad next door?

She goes uppity on Nov 16th.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Psst , Phred.......diddja seee Atlantis on the pad next door?

She goes uppity on Nov 16th.

I *wondered* who or what that was!

Shuttle Launches are REALLY hard to live through - hard on the old Ticker-Tocker.

[Lady's Human]

I've had mixed feelings about shuttle launches ever since Challenger went boom.

Funny, I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when both Challenger and Columbia had their accidents.

[RICHARD]

I got to see it....I was a feeling a little punk this morning.
I woke up at 2:30 and tried to stay awake..

I fell asleep again and was able to get thru the prelims.

LH,

You forgot one little thing....

No NASA?

No astronaut ice cream!

(I LOVE the camera on the side of the booster.

Wow, Two miles up seems like 30!

Well, done.


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I was at home for the Challenger, I called in sick to work and I got a call from a pal who was asking what had happened.

I remember one of the news conferences and watching Jay Greene, one of the NASA honchos, trying to answer questions from the press....I could feel his pain.

Now, I know what "swaying in the wind" means. He was in the middle of a hurricane with no idea where the storm would land him.

For the Columbia landing I flipped on the radio-it was supposed to land at Edwards and I heard the news blurb saying they had lost contact with the craft.

Later, I went to Home Depot to get some stuff for a side job I was doing and will always remember how quiet the store was....spooky.