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Want to See Space Shuttle Discovery's Last Hurrah? Here’s How
space.com ^ | 02/22/11 | Clara Moskowitz

Posted on 02/22/2011 6:55:50 PM PST by KevinDavis

Record crowds by the thousands are expected to turn out Thursday (Feb. 24) to watch NASA's space shuttle Discovery soar to space for the last time.

Luckily, a shuttle launch is such a bright spectacle that anyone on Florida's Space Coast can get a decent view. The shuttle is poised to blast off on Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. EST (2150 GMT) to make one last delivery trip to the International Space Station.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: discovery; nasa; shuttle; space; spaceshuttle
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1 posted on 02/22/2011 6:55:53 PM PST by KevinDavis
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To: originalbuckeye; Kevmo; LuvFreeRepublic; LittleBillyInfidel; LucyT; HighWheeler; ChuckHam; ...



2 posted on 02/22/2011 6:57:10 PM PST by KevinDavis (If you buy a car from GM, you are supporting Obama..)
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To: KevinDavis

I’d like to be on the ping list.


3 posted on 02/22/2011 7:00:23 PM PST by Huck (one per-center)
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To: KevinDavis

Please ping me.

This is a sad day for the USA but one we should see together.


4 posted on 02/22/2011 7:01:20 PM PST by freedumb2003 (The TOTUS-reader is a Judas Goat, leading the American sheeple to the slaugherhouse /Parmy)
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Can see it from my front yard (in Ocala).


5 posted on 02/22/2011 7:04:24 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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To: freedumb2003

I don’t think that I will see a high-lift reusable spacecraft that can fly in for a landing again in my lifetime, at least not one with a US flag on it.


6 posted on 02/22/2011 7:08:46 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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Sad... that’s all that I can feel over this.


7 posted on 02/22/2011 7:40:00 PM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: KevinDavis

Thanks!


8 posted on 02/22/2011 8:23:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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Wow, $59 a head? The good news is, at that rate, a mere 8,474,577 tickets sold would be sufficient to defray the cost of the launch.


9 posted on 02/22/2011 8:29:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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Wow, $59 a head?
FYI, in the open market, these are worth a lot more. I had some tickets for this flight that I ended up not needing (out of state guests who couldn't keep coming down for each scrubbed attempt), and I sold them for $600 each.

Unfortunately, I doubt that much of the face value (let alone the street value) actually goes towards the launch.

10 posted on 02/23/2011 3:29:32 AM PST by Johnny B.
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