It's funny, they look like a big and little brother, but which one goes into space? The young'n!
i never could believe that sight
Welcome to the moth ball fleet. While you are still of value, the pensions of those that built you are more important then you so now, you will never see space again.
Sadly the taxpayer will pay for you for the next 100 years of you doing nothing.
We can do ANYTHING!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
I saw the shuttle once when it/they piggybacked into Dyess in Abilene, TX. It was smaller than I'd expected and very scorched and dirty.
Saw that on Fox this am. Glad it landed safely. It is awesome to watch, having lived here in S. Texas about one hour drive from NASA all these years. We are so proud of our space program here in the Houston area. I wish they could either fix all the problems with the Shuttle or come up with a whole new system. We loved Skylab and all the other space missions over the years.
Ok, I'm curious about something.
I read that this little cross country flight cost NASA a million dollars. Is there some particular pressing reason why the space shuttle can't land in Florida and save us taxpayers the million dollar cross country flight, or is this just more government stupidity?
Anyone?
It's a grand sight, but how many of us know how crucial the space program is to the advancement of civilization and the health of capitalist society? The space program is often justified as either a gee wiz Star Trek adventure motivated by human curiosity and the need to explore, or as a cornicopia of spin off consumer products like Walkman, GPS, Crazy Glue, etc.
But where do we see it presented in the media that space exploration literally "drives" our economy into the future with technologies that can solve virtually all problems faced by Western Civilization. Where is it written in Time or Newsweek that the necessity for miniaturization and weight saving in the space program drove the invention of transister technology and it's paradigm defining derivative, computer technology?
Before the space program, economic and technological drivers were chiefly found in the war making industries; economic areas where tooth and nail survival was the defining motivator. For the first time in human history, we can place the core mover of technological processes upon a primarily global cooperative endeavor, the exploration of our universe being a far more perfect and extended field sublimation of the struggle for survival.
We should put the corrupt, sovereignty destroying, socialist mole operation United Nations out of business and replace it with an international counterpart to NASA.
Walter
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Geez Louize! What a fricking albatros!
What sort of viable space plane requires it's own private 747 to get around? How many million is that? How much per hour to fly the 747? Of course the 747 has absolutely no other function in life. How much to maintin this single use once every couple years 747? AND .... AND .... AND ...Its unsafe to fly.