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Space Shuttle Goes Back to Work

Posted by Zonk on from the yay-space! dept.

dalewj writes "The Discovery rolled over from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center this morning. May 15th is the scheduled launch for STS-114. I was at NASA last month and got to see the payload for the space station thru lots of glass and I have to wonder, how far behind is the space station at this point?"

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  1. About time. by heauxmeaux · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't pay the space shuttle to sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Goddamn lazy space shuttle.

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  2. What Space Station? by technoCon · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think the Space Staton is scheduled to arrive about six months after my nuclear-powered flying car.

    1. Re:What Space Station? by mattspammail · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sweet! Do you have any pictures? And is that fission or fusion? I wouldn't buy a fission-powered nuclear flying car. They suck. Wait for the '06 models. They have bigger cupholders too.

      I know what you're thinking. Fission vs fusion. Classic flamebait/troll. All I have to say is, "Judge not, lest yer sense of humor be absent."

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  3. How far behind? by pavon · · Score: 3, Funny

    how far behind is the space station at this point?

    Hehe, when I was in elementary school I remember hearing about how great the space station (then S.S. Freedom) was going to be when it was built. Expected completion date - the late 80's.

  4. May 15... by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny
    "The Discovery rolled over from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center this morning. May 15th is the scheduled launch for STS-114.

    May 15th!?!?!? It'll be out of date by then and they'll have to upgrade everything!

    I was at NASA last month and got to see the payload for the space station thru lots of glass and I have to wonder, how far behind is the space station at this point?"

    Not to worry, maintenance and such have been outsourced to Venus.

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  5. Re:How far behind? by ari_j · · Score: 5, Funny

    And when I was in high school we learned about what a lazy bunch of bastards everyone was in the 80s. ;)

  6. The Payload's Names by camusflage · · Score: 4, Funny

    From TFA: There are three MPLMs (Multi-Purpose Logistics Module), named Raffaello, Leonardo and Donatello.

    What, Michaelangelo didn't deserve top billing? I'll bet it was the orange bandanna.. What about Krang? I'm just glad to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the air again!

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  7. Re:Yay! by sconeu · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK, you might consider the Ewoks a space disaster (since Star Wars is space opera), but it still wasn't a *SHUTTLE* disaster.

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  8. May 15th? by Dirtside · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's no coincidence that they're taking off four days before Episode III premieres. They don't want to risk being killed in the Nerd Riots of '05 should Lucas screw the pooch once again.

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  9. Re:The Space Shuttle is such a waste by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 1, Funny

    a very simple (and cheap to maintain) TPS

    At long last, pay off for those thankless mounds of TPS reports.

  10. Re:Through by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can Slasdot posters no longer type out whole words?

    LOL, OMFG. For all you irony police out there, does slasdot in the above sentence qualify?

  11. Re:Feynmann predicted 1/50 rate of failure by bigpat · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Would you walk across the street at 1/50 odds?"

    Depends what is on the other side.

    I meant the other side of the street, just to be clear.

  12. Re:The Space Shuttle is such a waste by Eunuchswear · · Score: 2, Funny


    It would be nice to see the revenue from today's costly reusable craft going to fund tomorrow's slightly less expensive (or crash prone) reusable craft.

    Huh? Revenue? You think the shuttle makes money? Care to inform us on step 2?

    1. Launch shuttle.
    2. ???
    3. profit!!!
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