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Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Live Thread 09/06/06 12:29 pm (edt)
09/05/06
| Kevin Davis
Posted on 09/05/2006 8:00:29 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Looks like a wonderful day for a launch.....
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: atlantis; live; nasa; shuttleatantis; space; spaceshuttle
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Folks, I'll probaly be in a meeting during the launch so can someone post the information as the launch happens?
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:02:24 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
Agreed...as Alan Shepard said back in the day, "Let's light this candle!"
GO ATLANTIS!!!
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:03:18 PM PDT
by
TampaDude
(If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:04:37 PM PDT
by
Not now, Not ever!
(The devil made me do it!,......................................................( well, not really.))
To: KevinDavis
I can't depend on the media to tell me this so I'll ask here: WHY are we sending shuttles into space at $50M a pop? What are we accomplishing with this many flights? Is it just to delivery pizza to the russians stranded in space? For $50M, the guy is just going to have to be sacrificed for the sake of science if we don't have a better excuse.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:04:45 PM PDT
by
bpjam
(Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaida - The Religion of Peace)
To: bpjam
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:10:43 PM PDT
by
TampaDude
(If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
To: KevinDavis
They wait much longer and Flo may be knocking at the door.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:11:08 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: bpjam
It's a lot more than $50M per launch!
The Space Shuttle currently has two reasons for existing: 1) to meet our international obligations with the construction of the ISS, and 2) to repair the Hubble Space Telescope one more time. After that it will be retired and our space program will move on to bigger and better things with Project Constellation.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:11:39 PM PDT
by
burzum
(Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
To: bpjam
50 million? It's more like 500 million. ;)
They're planning on finishing construction of the ISS before the shuttle is retired in 2010. (Weren't we supposed to find Europan life by then?) I believe all of the shuttle missions will be tasked to carrying hardware to the ISS until it's retired.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:11:47 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: bpjam
Better than sending it down to nola.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:13:05 PM PDT
by
Not now, Not ever!
(The devil made me do it!,......................................................( well, not really.))
To: bpjam
just fyi that money is better spent on the shuttle than rewarding non performance like welfare to a bunch of lazy people
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:13:20 PM PDT
by
al baby
To: CindyDawg
Flo is far away from Florida from what I have seen...
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:14:20 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:16:07 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(I did use spell check!)
To: ThomasThomas; All
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:17:45 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: CindyDawg
Don't fall into that type of
logical fallacy. The Space Shuttle program has only rolled back about 5 launches due to hurricanes.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:18:50 PM PDT
by
burzum
(Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
To: burzum
The original space station was intended to assemble the parts of rockets which could fly to the Moon, Mars or other Planets.
Congress cut the budget, but Sen. Albert Gore was able to convince our government to fund a space station, if we worked closely with the Russians. Because the Russian launch complex is located so far North in Latitude, the space station was moved to an orbit that was compatible.
This Northern latitude of the space station, has made it totally useless as an assembly point for future space explorations.
The Space Shuttle, and the Space Station, are both useless for any future exploration of our Solar system.
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:19:12 PM PDT
by
Hunble
(Why?)
To: bpjam
That's about a quarter a piece from all of us? 50 mil isn't chicken feed but I would rather spend money on space exploration any day, than a lot of other stuff , such as the UN etc.
To: KevinDavis
12:29 est
They cant be more specific just a estimated time for lift off?
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posted on
09/05/2006 8:21:17 PM PDT
by
al baby
To: burzum
Be nice. Yall closed shop for Ernesto. I just made an innocent, comment regarding a tropical storm that isn't sticking to models is about a week out.
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