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Live Thread - Endeavour's Final Landing (2:35 a.m. EDT)
Posted on 05/31/2011 1:50:14 PM PDT by Dave346
Deorbit burn scheduled for 1:29am (weather permitting).
Landing at Kennedy Space Center scheduled for 2:35am.
TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: endeavour; finalflight; giffords; shuttle; spaceshuttle
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To: Bockscar
Nice landing shots! / Wheel stop.
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:49:09 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: Bockscar
The Shuttle is home! :) That was way cool!
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:49:16 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
To: Bockscar
Any idea what that flame is that is venting near the tail of the ship?
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:49:45 PM PDT
by
RedCell
(Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
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To: Talisker
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:49:54 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
(We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
To: freedomson
And if we can put a muslim on the moon then, one day
we could put all of the muslims....
on the moon.
I'd settle for the stratosphere, environmental impact be damned.
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:50:16 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
How’s it go? It’s not the fall that’ll kill ‘em, it’s the sudden deceleration?
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:51:46 PM PDT
by
RedCell
(Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
To: Talisker
The HUD display from the pilot was fantastic.
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:52:45 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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To: RedCell
Flaring from the APU's, I believe. It's normal.
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:56:07 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: RedCell
My guess - and only a guess - is they burn off excess fuel from the positioning rockets so they don’t have to deal with it.
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To: smokingfrog
Thanks. The narrator just mentioned APU venting.
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posted on
05/31/2011 11:57:49 PM PDT
by
RedCell
(Honor thy Father (9/6/07) - Semper Fi / "...it is their duty, to throw off such government...")
To: Royal Wulff
Oh I see it’s not positioning rockets but APUs (auxiliary power units) Either way it’s hydrazine and that stuff is absolutely nasty.
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posted on
06/01/2011 12:03:31 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: Paul R.
I was sitting on our balcony at our hotel at DisneyWorld and heard the sonic boom at 2:31 am. Didn’t see the Shuttle though. The de-orbit fireworks must have been over before it crossed my horizon.
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posted on
06/01/2011 12:04:13 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Bockscar
I was in high school when the Russians shot sputnik into orbit, I well remember projects Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, then the Shuttle. I am having a hard time believe it is almost over. No more American manned space flight after the next one. It makes me sick. I watched the Apollos, but was always ravenous about any space info - Mercury, Gemini, Shuttle, etc. Made models, consumed magazine and and articles and books.
Quite frankly, I haven't been able to accept the end of American manned space flight... doesn't compute. I don't think I want it to.
Here's something fascinating the Brits are up to, though (watch the video, especially):
Skylon development given go-ahead by UK Space Agency
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posted on
06/01/2011 12:07:29 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
To: RedCell
How’s it go? It’s not the fall that’ll kill ‘em, it’s the sudden deceleration? It's that sudden vaporization, due to the thermal shock, as they go, suffused with an incandescent glow, should they be stupid enough to corner Israel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69AaPrJe0b8
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posted on
06/01/2011 12:12:03 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
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