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Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: BlackDove on July 26, 2005, 09:35:49 am

Tee Hee - hope for the best.

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: BlackDove on July 26, 2005, 09:43:35 am

Looks like it worked.

Woot.

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: redsniper on July 26, 2005, 10:05:01 am

Go NASA! :D:yes:

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: Admiral LSD on July 26, 2005, 10:10:07 am

heh, remember that it wasn't the take-off (well, technically it was but still...) that ****ed over Columbia but rather the re-entry ;)

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: MatthewPapa on July 26, 2005, 10:14:35 am

w0w

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: Fineus on July 26, 2005, 10:37:33 am

Just watched a video from the BBC.co.uk site... quite fantastic. It's really about time something like this happened.

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: Marauder on July 26, 2005, 10:43:11 am

:mad: I missed it! *mumbles* Dad made me buy a bucket of paint... *mumbles*

This is awesome though.  If NASA hadn't pulled it off...that would've been the end... :o

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: Admiral LSD on July 26, 2005, 11:05:56 am

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Originally posted by Marauder
This is awesome though.  If NASA hadn't pulled it off...that would've been the end... :o

I think they knew it too, they were at one point willing to launch with only three of the four fuel gauges (you only need two, the others are redundancy) working breaking a rule that'd been in place since the 1986 Challenger disaster.

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: DeepSpace9er on July 26, 2005, 12:47:21 pm

So instead of falling now, NASA is going to limp on a little more. They've lost their grandeur and they know it.. its only a matter of time before a government run space program finally kicks the bucket.

Title: Discovery Launches in Four Minutes
Post by: achtung on July 26, 2005, 03:33:34 pm

nah, NASA will be here as long as the U.S. government is.

I slept through it but glad to see it's up there doing what it's supposed to.