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Atlantis Captures Hubble Space Telescope
Drudgereport | May 13, 2009 | Drudgereport

Posted on 05/13/2009 11:06:20 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues

Space Shuttle Atlantis has grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope, the "capture" went flawless and the next step will be the space walks and repairs, beginning Thursday.


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KEYWORDS: missinglink; space
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Good news
1 posted on 05/13/2009 11:06:20 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues
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To: BlueStateBlues; KevinDavis

Very cool


2 posted on 05/13/2009 11:07:08 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Atlantis grabbed itself? Sounds like Perez Hilton again.


3 posted on 05/13/2009 11:07:30 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Uhhhh, I think your title is defective. ;)


5 posted on 05/13/2009 11:08:25 AM PDT by ezfindit (OrthodoxNet.com - Shining the Light of Wisdom and Truth)
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To: BlueStateBlues

“Atlantis grabs Itself”

There, fixed it.


6 posted on 05/13/2009 11:08:38 AM PDT by gigster
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Oh, get a grip!


7 posted on 05/13/2009 11:08:56 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 114 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: F15Eagle

...Yes, I thought this was going to far more dramatic. Like Moonraker!


8 posted on 05/13/2009 11:10:03 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Thanks. Type too fast without proofing. I could sound like an idiot, but the news still is good.


9 posted on 05/13/2009 11:10:29 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: BlueStateBlues

I mistake on the title attracts smart ass comments like bees to honey...


10 posted on 05/13/2009 11:10:55 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Is Michael Jackson piloting it?...................


12 posted on 05/13/2009 11:12:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (If Keynesian economics worked, Zimbabwe would be a superpower.......................)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Just click the abuse and ask the mods to fix it.


13 posted on 05/13/2009 11:16:10 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It took almost 250 years to make the USA great and 30 days for "The Failure" BO to tear it down.)
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To: null and void
Oh, get a grip!

Wasn't that what the space shuttle was doing?

14 posted on 05/13/2009 11:16:37 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Just click the abuse and ask the mods to fix it.

A report of self-abuse? Isn't that what the Atlantis is in trouble for in this thread?

15 posted on 05/13/2009 11:17:44 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Sounds like a Biden news release.


16 posted on 05/13/2009 11:17:47 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Just click the abuse and ask the mods to fix it.

If the shuttle was grabbing itself, it already hit it's own abuse button.

17 posted on 05/13/2009 11:18:33 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: BlueStateBlues
Atlantis Captures Hubble Space Telescope

Watch streaming video:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

18 posted on 05/13/2009 11:20:23 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: BlueStateBlues

Space goose....


19 posted on 05/13/2009 11:21:17 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Sgt_Schultze

The arm is from Canada - they can get strange up there...

20 posted on 05/13/2009 11:28:43 AM PDT by mikrofon (Canadian Arm Forces)
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