space shuttle

[Dirtybird12]

<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2143259" target="_self">SHUTTLE LAUNCH TODAY</a></p><p>For the first time in almost a year, NASA was set to launch a space shuttle Saturday on a mission that will test whether the space agency has reduced the risks of flying in the 25-year-old vehicles. </p><p>As the astronauts finished strapping into the space shuttle one by one, thunder clouds moved closer to the Kennedy Space Center and threatened to delay the 3:48 p.m. EDT blastoff of Discovery in what would be only the second launch since the Columbia disaster in 2003. </p><p>Astronauts really are fucking crazy...</p><p>stay out of space for a little while. </p>

[CuzBum]

Imagine if Columbus stayed out of his space shuttle, the&nbsp;USS Constitution, we'd all be Chinese!

[Dirtybird12]

<p>YOURE RIGHT. </p><p>THIS IS AMERICA!</p><p>LETS GO KICK SOME ALIEN ASS!!!!</p><p>oops -wait a minute - &nbsp;rain cloud. looks like it's been scrapped for today..</p><p>4 minutes after my post- NASA decided to can lift - off. </p><p>hmmm</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by CircusFreak on 7-1-06 @ 3:35 PM</span>

[CuzBum]

<p><img src="http://www.whywehatebush.com/images/bush_red.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>&quot;CLOUDS HATE FREEDOM!&quot;</p>

[PapaBear]

<p><strong><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060704/ts_nm/space_shuttle_dc_27" target="_self">NASA to launch shuttle despite crack</a></strong> </p><p>If you ask me, Astronauts on crack is just wrong!</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p>The Weathercutioner Strikes Again!!!!</p><p>like i've always said &quot; his clouds are ominous and not harmonious &quot;... Shuttles Shutter&nbsp;at his presence</p><p><img height="89" src="http://image.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/52/38.gif" width="105" border="0" /></p>

[sr71blackbird]

Who wants to take bets the thing blows up?

[Bunny™]

<strong>sr71blackbird</strong> wrote:<br />Who wants to take bets the thing blows up? <p>I think the O/U is 2 minutes 30 seconds.</p><p>I'm taking $50 on the over.</p>

[Dirtybird12]

<strong>sr71blackbird</strong> wrote:<br />Who wants to take bets the thing blows up? <p>If I were a betting man, I'd say IF it blows - it will happen ON the launch pad. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That would suck.. It's the 4th of July.&nbsp;A disaster like that on a day like this - could change the world forever.</p><p>Thought they said yesterday that there was a crack in the fuel line. - but it poses no threat to the crew. </p><p>just doesn't sound right.... I say call it off or somehow fake it</p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by CircusFreak on 7-4-06 @ 11:31 AM</span>

[furie]

<a target='blank' href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTs4LkOOCPw>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTs4LkOOCPw</a>

[suggums]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>furie</strong> wrote:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTs4LkOOCPw" target="blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTs4LkOOCPw</a><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>beautiful&nbsp;</p>

[PapaBear]

I saw a night launch while high on hash back in 1985.&nbsp;It was amazing. I'll always be a nut for space travel.

[Dirtybird12]

<p><font size="2"><span class="mainarttxt">Even in space, a little duct tape may work wonders. Astronaut Piers Sellers suggested using some of the multipurpose sticky material to fix a safety-jet backpack used during spacewalks after it almost came loose from him while he repaired the international space station.</span> </font></p><p><font size="2"><span class="mainarttxt">&quot;Right now, is there some kind of tape fix that you guys could think about that would be helpful?&quot; Sellers asked Mission Control Tuesday morning, a day after the propulsive backpack started to come loose during his spacewalk with astronaut Mike Fossum.</span> <br /><br /><span class="mainarttxt">Fossum had to tether the device to Sellers to keep it from flying away.</span> <br /></font></p><p><font size="2">Im was watching them repair a hole in the shuttle with a putty knife and caulking gun. Imagine fixing a drywall hole - and if you dont repair it the right way, you could die re-entering the earths atmosphere. </font></p><p><font size="2">their whole time spent in space was wasted on fixing the shuttle.&nbsp; </font></p><p><font size="2">Stay out of space. </font></p><p><font size="2">Duct tape, glue and a caulking gun being used to repair the shuttle in space. </font></p><p><font size="2">just sounds wrong. </font></p><p><font size="2"><br /></font></p>