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Discovery: From Hangar to Last Liftoff

This is the stuff you DON'T see. And after next year, you won't see...period.

Note: The video is silent...until Discovery lifts off from the launch pad.

This is fabulous to be able to witness the procedure. I don't believe they've EVER shown this before...especially in such detail!


http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KZrFC988Thc
 
This will be viewed in the future as the time when Man dared to dream, to reach for the stars, to make those dreams a reality.

And the future will wonder whatever happened to all that........
 
TeaSea said:
This will be viewed in the future as the time when Man dared to dream, to reach for the stars, to make those dreams a reality.

And the future will wonder whatever happened to all that........
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No. No they won't.
They'll be too busy taking multiple pics of their 'junk', sending texts to each other, and posting inconsequential information about their lives to a social networking site while watching 3D "reality" shows, or jumping off buildings, to ever consider what could have been and what greatness there once was.
 
I wouldn't be so pessimistic. We just sent a 1T rover to Mars. The future space program may be different, but I don't think it is going to disappear.


The budget is definitely an issue though. I'd much rather see us dumping large portions of our budget into rockets and satellites than bombs. :mixedsmi:
 
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