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END OF AN ERA
Atlantis touched down a few minutes ago, thus ending 30 years of NASA's space shuttle programme. Let us remember the good times, and alsi the bad ones, the people who made it and those who died attempting to reach the stars. I saw Enterprise, which never flew, (but many of its parts did, incorporated into the other shuttles did go out there, thataway), when it came to the UK perched on top of the Boeing, I saw two launches and 2 landings in person, I have many souvenirs of those times, managed to get a guided tour round both Vandenberg and Ewards Air Bases, 'did' Cap Canaveral, now Kennedy Space Centre and the Tranquillity Space Center at Huntsville, Alabama where Werhner von Braun did most of his space work for the USA, so I am very sad it has come to an end .... but only for now. It will come round again, maybe not in my lifetime, but space is no longer unreachable .... so go for it,fellow humans, and may you indeed reach for the stars and get there!! LL
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I can't help thinking its a backward step, LL, when forty years ago people were dreaming of the stars, and Concorde was going to open up the world...
Also on Tony's blog:
http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.com/?zx=55e5999b03edea29
Also on Tony's blog:
http://thehoundingofthemccans.blogspot.com/?zx=55e5999b03edea29
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Like you guys, I feel sad, truly do. I'll not forget it flying over my house on the way to Edwards, it felt like an earthquake happening from the roof down. I watched it from my back garden until it was gone into the distance. The next day I had to get a roof guy in to fix the roof where the tiles had come off.
The achievements that were made in the US were incredible. The losses horrendous and the astronauts so courageous.
I think the next stops are the moon again and mars?
The achievements that were made in the US were incredible. The losses horrendous and the astronauts so courageous.
I think the next stops are the moon again and mars?
lily- Slayer of scums
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I hope so, Lily - apart from anything else, the space programme has brought once hostile nations together, which I don't think anyone forsaw?
Who would have thought, at the start of the 'space race' that the USA and Russia would be working together, and astronauts of every nation going into space on the Shuttle?
Who would have thought, at the start of the 'space race' that the USA and Russia would be working together, and astronauts of every nation going into space on the Shuttle?
bb1- Slayer of scums
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We wouldn't have thought, Bonny. However, here we are. It's all rather humbling in way.....
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