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An Enterprise takes flight…

It’s kind of neat… the space shuttle Enterprise gets to fly one last time… on Monday April 23rd.

Up in the sky…

 

Space Shuttle Discovery took its final flight today on its way to becoming an artifact at the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space museum.     Kind of wish I had been in Washington DC to see its fly-over.

 

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It’s over…

 

America no longer has a space shuttle program.    Atlantis has completed the STS-135 mission, its 33rd flight (I believe) and when it wheels rolled to a stop, so ended the era of the Space Shuttle.   There has been Read more

Final Countdown

  In a few minutes or so, the space shuttle Atlantis should be blasting off, with its four-person crew, on the very last mission of the US Space Shuttle program. As it prepares to embark upon its final voyage, Read more

From Soyouz with Love…

 

Well, I’m stealing space.com’s title here.   Nothing wittier coming out of my head.   

Just wish that I could actually save a copy of videos like this.    Its nothing entertaining, but it is a rare photo-op… that of a Read more

Within hours… Science!

 

The AMS, which I blogged about a few weeks ago, is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which was recently installed (earlier today) on the space station by the Shuttle Endeavor’s crew:

(Here it is being taken out of Endeavor’s Read more

Endeavor

 

The space shuttle Endeavor is poised for its final launch (unless United Space Alliance’s bid to operate the shuttles as private spacecraft proves fruitful) today.

Its the baby of our shuttle fleet, assembled mostly from spare parts, authorized Read more

Did you know?

Did you know that today is the 50th anniversary of manned-space-flight?    It’s also the 30th anniversary of the US Space Shuttle Columbia’s maiden launch.

Pictured here is Discovery during take-off on the STS-114 mission.

 

 

 

 

 

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Army Ants

 

Neat, but after all that work to get it setup, it dispelled pretty quick.

http://www.space.com/11184-time-lapse-view-nasa-workers-making-human-space-shuttle.html

And she soars…

Watching Discovery’s final launch live. So far so good. Good luck Discovery! (Booster rockets just seperated)

Eiglis Revisited

 

Eiglis is the Great Dragon of the Spring, in case you were wondering.

 

Finally a groundhog agrees with me…  Spring is coming early this year.   I know that sounds silly given how much of the continent is Read more