[sheltonmac]

Is it just me, or are these shuttle missions getting more and more pointless?

[prognostigaator]

concur bump

[The_Victor]

Is it just me, or are these shuttle missions getting more and more pointless?

Mundane is not the same thing as pointless. The more dull and routine space flight becomes, the better.

[geezerwheezer]

Now we have the wacko/enviroes flying in a space ship....notice any connection there? Could this be where the term "space cadet" originated? Inquiring minds want to know...

[billbears]

Government sponsored trips in the spacebus were a waste and pointless since at least 1981. The government should have never been in the business in the first place. There is nothing that has been gained by government oversight of space exploration that couldn't be done privately. Ground this outdated piece of junk

[ValenB4]

She can notice erosion from SPACE?! What eyesight she has! If only she had been able to help me find the golfball I lost on the 11th hole last weekend.

[billybudd]

No, you're missing the grandeur of the shuttle missions:

"Oh, the view is priceless," Noguchi said as the shuttle-station complex flew more than 200 miles above Europe. "I can see the moon."

Source [orlandosentinel.com]

[The_Eaglet]

"Sometimes you can see how there is erosion, and you can see how there is deforestation. It's very widespread in some parts of the world."

It does not take millions of federal tax dollars to figure that out.

Thanks for the flag.