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by **Cluny** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:35 pm

Sorry , couldn't resist :))

Due to launch on friday July 8th at 11:26 EDT [17:26 BST] , this is the last one

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

by **Cluny** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 7:44 am

Theres only a 30% chance of the launch taking place today due to thunderstorms .
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/article/rain-threatens-final-shuttle-launch/12671/?lpos=tat-links-2-world&lid=tat-links-2-rainthreatensfinalshuttlelaunch

by **Dan4th** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 4:37 pm

She's off, just a few minutes ago.....

The flight control people were unable
to conceal their emotions over the
intercoms.........

It is, after all, a Sad Day in many ways........

Danf.

by **Minty4371** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:27 pm

Missed it

.

by **Cluny** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:45 pm

Missed it too , got stuck in traffic [thank you F1] :((

by **Minty4371** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:52 pm

Last ever launch

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by **Dan4th** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:13 pm

I watched the last twelve or so minutes with
a brief hold at 00:31, and there were two
people, a man and a woman, who's transmissions
were caught over the broadcast -- I don't think
they were aware of being listened to.

Their back-and-forth with the crew was very
businesslike, but the emotion in both of their
voices was hard to miss.

I'll see if I can't find it..........

As I say, a sad day for many at NASA.

Danf.

by **Wedgy** » Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:45 pm

Just watched it on the BBC .... felt very sad - glad, reading this ... Im not alone.

by **Checkflaps** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:50 am

Get in quick - over at NASA TV. Final seperation burn is starting from the ISS. Back on the ground on Thursday. It all feels so similar to the end of Concorde. Great aircraft, with potential to carry on. All finished with nothing now in the pipeline to superceed it (of comparable or greater performance).

Another 'end of an era' moment.

Garry
(Mods - What chance of a piccie of the shuttle in the top bar?)

by **Dee** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:53 am

Watched it live on Sky news this morning.

by **Kermit** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:44 pm

Yep, history repeating itself. Another one bites the dust

great shame....

by **Cluny** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 6:00 pm

All ends tomorrow , expected to land at KSC at 10:36 BST

by **Minty4371** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:01 am

0957 GMT (5:57 a.m. EDT)
WHEELS STOP. The space shuttle program is over.
The 30 years of flight on 135 missions traveled 542,398,878 miles and 21,152 orbits of the planet, carrying 355 humans and 3.5 million pounds of payloads as America's Space Transportation System.
0957 GMT (5:57 a.m. EDT)
Atlantis is back at the Kennedy Space Center after a mission that spanned 200 orbits of the planet and 5,284,862 miles to complete one last logistics run to the bolster the future health of the International Space Station.
This orbiter flew 33 times in its quarter-century of spaceflight, accumulating 307 days in space, 4,848 orbits and 125,935,769 miles traveled.
Taken from Spaceflight Now.

by **Wedgy** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:08 pm

Video on BBC report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14220423

by **Cluny** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:13 pm

And that is that

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