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Discovery Set to Launch July 13
An anonymous reader writes "The US space shuttle is set to launch July 13 for the first time in nearly two and a half years, after being grounded following the 2003 Columbia disaster, NASA said today. NASA experts held a final 'flight readiness review' meeting on Wednesday and Thursday to make a final decision."
Give me a break, why cant you be proud of our nation? we fight in things we believe in, and we are doing the right thing, even if you dont think we are.
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Because our nation's actions since 2001 have been shameful. An invasion and occupation based on lies, detentions without due process, torture, kidnapping, fiscal irresponsibility, the subjugation of science for political ends, etc. I was proud of my nation before, and with luck I'll be proud of it again someday. But I'm not proud of it now.
and we are doing the right thing, even if you dont think we are
It may be comforting to tell yourself that, but saying it doesn't make it so.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Never has there been more reason to be proud. Our country has done the right thing despite it being unpopular.
...and the vision to explore cislunar space and beyond.
Being right and popular rarely go together.
The invasion has eliminated a tyrant and there is no occupation...
Terrorists are confined and treated better than they deserve...
How do you put a price on freedom and our children's security...
Our country still has the power to explore the heavens with what once was a mortal enemy...
If you can't be proud today, you must live in someplace called paris.