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Post by snow on Apr 27, 2011 23:35:49 GMT -6
STS-134 is planned to launch this Friday afternoon ... This will be Space Shuttle Endeavour's last mission into space.. and the second last flight of a shuttle.
I am hoping to catch part of the launch on tv or on the NASA website .. I remember the first launch of Columbia back in 1981 .. we all got the day off school so we could stay home and watch "history" being made ...
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Post by blaird83 on Apr 28, 2011 6:18:49 GMT -6
if you can remember that I must say your are truly OLD, the original launch was a few years before my time.... ;D
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Post by Cowboy Camper on Apr 28, 2011 22:26:08 GMT -6
if you can remember that I must say your are truly OLD, the original launch was a few years before my time.... ;D And we're racking on the Admin once again. Figures. I don't recall Craig's age at the moment, but I think he's close to me. And Yes, Both of us remember the First Shuttle Launch. I was 11 at the time. Personally I was 17 when the first shuttle loss happened back in early '87. What a Horrible thing to see on TV in the middle of an English Class. I remember that as if it were Yesterday. Incidentally, that's also the year I lost my first Grandfather.
Yes, Bryan, there's a certain age Gap between us. But that Maiden Shuttle Launch was only 2 years before you were born. Considering that we went to the Moon a year before I was born makes me ask this question. What is Missing these days in our Public Schools that these facts are not being told to the Students these days? Yup. I guess I'm OLD too. I don't mind you calling me that. I know what I am. But I wonder what you know, or have been taught about our History of Space Exploration.Travels. Personally, I find it sad that the Gov't Powers to be these days are killing off the Shuttle. They were constructed to run 50 Years.... and yet they're being killed off before the age of 30. I guess that kinda hurts me somehow.
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