[BlackDove]

Tee Hee - hope for the best.

[BlackDove]

Looks like it worked.

Woot.

[redsniper]

Go NASA! :yes:

[Admiral LSD]

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

[MatthewPapa]

w0w

[Fineus]

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

[Marauder]

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...

[Admiral LSD]

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

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.

[DeepSpace9er]

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.

[achtung]

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.