STS-129; God Speed

[opie's twisted balls]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-129

Looks like a successful launch!

[boosterp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-129

Looks like a successful launch!

I am so fascinated with the whole space program and living near NASA helps. My best friend's neighbor is a mechanical engineer with NASA and gives the final approval on all the tools going up plus just worked with the Russians on fixing that urine recycling thing.

[opie's twisted balls]

I am so fascinated with the whole space program and living near NASA helps.
I think NASA and the US Space Program is one of America's greatest legacies.


p.s. very cool about your friend's gig

[angrymissy]

so badass, I wanna be an astronaut.

[boosterp]

I think NASA and the US Space Program is one of America's greatest legacies.


p.s. very cool about your friend's gig

It is and we need the funding to continue. That is one of the few things I can not speak ill of GW, he was funding NASA.

Yea, that guy is really neat, fun to talk to, and very bright. It's fun when I get to see him and of all the neighbors to have, I'd want him next door to me.

[opie's twisted balls]

It is and we need the funding to continue. That is one of the few things I can not speak ill of GW, he was funding NASA.
Absolutely the funding needs to continue. There's an obvious direct benefit to continued space exploration but also the peripheral inventiveness and innovation that a science centric program like NASA fosters.

As for cool neighbors you've got me trumped. The assholes next door not with standing everyone close to me is fairly boring. Accountants, doctors, dentists, etc. The most intriguing guy is about 6 houses down who works for the local police in their vice unit. As Doug Stanhope would put it his job is to kill everyone else's buzz.

[HBox]

STS........ YES!

[SatCam]

maybe the aliens have the answer to healthcare. with all the money we spend we can only hope

[opie's twisted balls]

maybe the aliens have the answer to healthcare
There's an easy answer to the healthcare problem. More people need to die to free up the resources we have.

[midwestjeff]

Yeah right.

People flying in machines and walking around in space.

Fucking Wikipedia is so stupid.

[SatCam]

There's an easy answer to the healthcare problem. More people need to die to free up the resources we have.

If we got rid of healthcare all together and let the sick people die I think that would solve a lot of our problems. Natural selection my friend

[Willmore]

Missed it. I forgot that was today. I've recently started watching the Shuttle launches and landings. It's really fascinating.

Is it morbid of me to watch it like Nascar, hoping that nothing bad happens but secretly wishing that if it does, you want to be there to see it?

[Furtherman]

This footage is awesome...

<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7852885&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;sho w_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;ful lscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7852885&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;sho w_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;ful lscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/7852885">STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2705084">mike interbartolo</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

[boosterp]

This footage is awesome...

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That's better than watching the actual launch from Nasa'a website. Wow!

[opie's twisted balls]

This footage is awesome...

THX for posting that....very cool!!