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Space Shuttle Endeavour Launches (at last)

Posted by michael on from the astronauts-not-allowed-to-bring-nailfiles-on-board dept.

mumkin writes: "Hey, STS-108 has finally launched! In addition to bringing a new crew to the International Space Station and performing an EVA, Endeavour will be releasing Starshine 2, another orbiting disco-ball for ground-based observers to track."

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  1. Woohoo! More shuttle missions! by the_furies · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a joke. How much longer are the American taxpayers going to let NASA waste our dollars on these "scientific" efforts? They should just turn the space program into a for-profit tourist service for bored billionaires, and spend our tax dollars on something useful like a superconducting supercollider or an AIDS vaccine.

  2. Re:American crap technology by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm not convinced. After all it is a well known fact that in European hell all the engineers are French!!!

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