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.
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I’d like to be on the ping list.
Please ping me.
This is a sad day for the USA but one we should see together.
Can see it from my front yard (in Ocala).
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.
Sad... that’s all that I can feel over this.
Thanks!
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.
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.
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