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Discovery Heading Home

Posted by Zonk on from the good-luck-folks dept.

Kailash Nadh wrote to mention an ABC News article discussing Discovery's departure from the space station, heading for Terra Firma. From the article: "Once undocked, Discovery looped around the space station for the first full photographic survey of the orbiting outpost since the last shuttle visit in late 2002, and then sped away into the blackness. Discovery's astronauts awoke Saturday evening for a day of storing away equipment for their upcoming return. They also planned to take down an antenna, which they have used to transmit video images of the mission. "

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  1. Location of Discovery in the night sky by caryw · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp

    Better be quick though. It's getting prety light here on the east coast.
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  2. Considering... by tyroneking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... that this will likely be the last Shuttle into space and more than likely the last non-commercial manned mission into space (because I'm convinced that Virigin Galactic will get there before NASA does again) I think we should all pause and think what has been achieved by NASA in the past years. The global impact of men on the moon, satellites providing worldwide telecoms, fun with gyroscopes, all those cool sci-fi movies, their rather long software development guides, Richard Feynman's star turn at the shuttle inqury ... it's been fun.
    Without manned missions NASA will probably shrink rapidly in the public mind and return to its military roots. Thanks for the memories!

  3. Re:These questions must be asked: by Edzor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    how did Buran the Russian shuttle`s Heat shield fair?