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Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Live Thread (7/13/09 6:51 p.m. EDT)
07/12/09 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 07/12/2009 7:07:37 PM PDT by KevinDavis

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1 posted on 07/12/2009 7:07:37 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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To: Zoe Brain; callisto; scottinoc; Movemout; markman46; AntiKev; wastedyears; ALOHA RONNIE; ...

2 posted on 07/12/2009 7:08:18 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: KevinDavis
thanks, for the ping.

3 posted on 07/12/2009 7:09:48 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0Bambi to the poor (foolish) voter: Welcome to Zer0's Peasant Care ® You Sucker... Now Die! :)
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To: skinkinthegrass

I’m praying for this mission. All these delays remind me of Challenger.


4 posted on 07/12/2009 7:11:25 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: cripplecreek

Self ping


5 posted on 07/12/2009 7:12:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: KevinDavis

Launch is scrubbed. Rescheduled for Monday.


6 posted on 07/12/2009 7:12:54 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: MediaMole

Wait, the 13th IS Monday. Damn that Chilean wine.


7 posted on 07/12/2009 7:14:00 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: KevinDavis

Pingy thanks!
Have a safe road trip.


8 posted on 07/12/2009 7:15:38 PM PDT by mojo114
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To: mojo114; All

It is called trying to fight the rush hour traffic.


9 posted on 07/12/2009 7:16:41 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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To: buccaneer81
All these delays remind me of Challenger.

true...but, w/ no ice..


10 posted on 07/12/2009 7:19:49 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0Bambi to the poor (foolish) voter: Welcome to Zer0's Peasant Care ® You Sucker... Now Die! :)
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To: skinkinthegrass
true...but, w/ no ice..

True, but with at least as much pressure to launch in an older vehicle. (Challenger was four 3.5 years in service, Endeavour is 17.)

11 posted on 07/12/2009 7:26:11 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

Last I heard, the fleet was to be retired in 2010. Endeavor does not have much longer to go...I’m sure all will be well. :)


12 posted on 07/12/2009 8:17:37 PM PDT by HelenaGrace
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To: HelenaGrace
Last I heard, the fleet was to be retired in 2010.

Hence the pressure to launch. Nine more launches after this one.

13 posted on 07/12/2009 8:25:17 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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"Nine more launches after this one."

Sure glad Mrs. Wasp and I got to see the one launch in early May that went up to fix the Hubble!!!

Are they simply going to abandon the shuttle after the last one? What will they supply the space station with after that? Just Russian personel and rockets?

Are we seeing the beginnings of America slouching off to third world status with no viable space program and no missle defense or ability to command the "high ground?" What???

14 posted on 07/12/2009 9:05:46 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Galloping suffocating American Socialism stinks like BO!!!)
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To: KevinDavis

/mark


15 posted on 07/13/2009 12:54:12 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (Hey there, White House Ha Ha Charade you are)
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To: SierraWasp
Are they simply going to abandon the shuttle after the last one?
What will they supply the space station with after that?
Just Russian personnel and rockets?

Yes, We Are...
Even though, America beat them in the Space race
...
We're going "give-up" our space program / industrial technologies (to politically-correct
countries
) for the "Greater / Glorious (Marxists) Peoples March to Space" program
(the 1st Five Year Plan) "w/ the tech. transfers" courtesy of the Klintoon's / Zer0Bambi's Admin.
to the DNC their Swiss Banks for Gold Bars / Ingots (hyper-inflation)...$$$$ will be worthless.


We're going to store 'em (if we're lucky, mothball 'em like USS New Jersey)
or scape 'em (like Northrup's Flying Wing..as a enviro / terrorist-weenies will claim
they're a future "Earth Hazard"), which is very very likely.....


16 posted on 07/13/2009 3:08:05 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0Bambi to the poor (foolish) voter: Welcome to Zer0's Peasant Care ® You Sucker... Now Die! :)
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To: MediaMole
Wait, the 13th IS Monday.

Launch on the 13th...13 astronauts on the ISS when they arrive...didn't NASA learn ANYTHING from Apollo 13???? 8^)

17 posted on 07/13/2009 6:14:20 AM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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Funny you should make the analogy to Apollo 13 today. When I got up this am to set the dvr to record the launch, NASA TV was showing a program about Apollo 13. Kinda wierd timing isn’t it?

I hope Endaevour gets off the pad today. The crew must be getting tired of these countdown demonstration tests. Lets light this candle already.


18 posted on 07/13/2009 9:32:45 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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To: SierraWasp
Are we seeing the beginnings of America slouching off to third world status with no viable space program and no missle defense or ability to command the "high ground?"

If Obama and the 'Rats get their way, that's the plan.

19 posted on 07/13/2009 10:45:57 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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I’m in FL so it’s always fun to watch it go up.

God speed. /salute


20 posted on 07/13/2009 12:08:03 PM PDT by Rustybelt ("...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." End of story.)
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