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Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely
Tuxedo Jack writes "CNN and NASA report that the space shuttle Discovery has landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Concerns for its safe return were raised when spacewalks were necessary to repair the vehicle when external components were damaged; however, the shuttle landed safely with Commander Eileen Collins at the control yoke."
one small step for her - one giant step for womankind.
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They finally decided to land after I woke up at both 4am Eastern yesterday and 5am today to watch it land, to no avail. I suppose they HAD to land sometime.
Eileen Collins
It's important that we have female shuttle pilots.
I mean, what if the core of the earth suddenly stopped spinning, and we needed to send a team down to jump start the core? If the core did that they could probably make a movie about the core doing that...
They could call it "The middle of the planet"... or something.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
-Mark
1 million dollars! muhahahha!
Of all the negative moderations that could have been used, they had to choose "Flamebait" for that one.
They UPS it overnight. ;-)
Seriously, they use the 747 like nearly everyone else has said. They've been doing it since the days of the Enterprise (the first shuttle, which was never certified for flight because of the destructive vibration tests it went through).
Chip H.
They launch it again, from california, with a sling-shot (the engineers have their own name for this device, I forget what it is though.) It gets up a few hundred thousand feet... then it glides across the country, purring like a gentle kitten the whole way through to florida.
Janeway got you hot and bothered?
You didn't really say that, did you? Really?
*Staggers off in shock*
They will need to work around the blackout dates however.
I have faith in Jesus that my toenails will be clipped. . .well, now they're clipped. Thank you Jesus. (See how this line of reasoning works?)
Um, didn't you get the sequence of events reversed?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Well, if it is roughly egg shaped, about half a metre tall, with four leathery flaps that peel back to reveal a crablike organism with a long scaly tail and acid for blood, it might be a bad thing.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
The commentator on Fox News asked the same thing.
Then guest commentator James Dobson from Focus on the Family said "No! It's the holy spirit guiding them home, you liberal commie!" at which point Bill O'Reilly bust in and said "Shut up, shut UP! cut his mike".
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
"Good publicity for them among people who want to see the space program continue."
This is Slashdot, where we believe the only thins that should be sent into space are robots.
They say that to land the shuttle, you need an auto-pilot, a human pilot and a dog. The dog is there to guard, that the human pilot does not touch the control yoke.
Anssi Porttikivi / app@iki.fi
I believe digitalgroove is a waste of space. Thus far, there is little proven benefit to its being and the risks seem to greatly out weigh the gains. Is it important for digitalgroove to exist? I have no clue. Is it important to maintain the fate of digitalgroove? Absolutely! Are there billions of french fries spent on digitalgroove that culminate in little to no tangible results and / or benefit? Yes! Do the math....
Karnal
Wow, how embarassing -- having something in common with a Fox reporter.
CNN is just chewing gums for the eyes. Unless you're stuck in a hotel room, why would you voluntarily watch CNN? They're the nipple pasties of the body that is international news. Well, you know what I mean.
Louis Armstrong?
I see skies of black
Black rocks tooooo
Tons of moon dust
and I see youuuuuuu
And I think to myself
What a wonderful weld...
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
It definitely made me pop awake, and my wife woke up in a panic asking if someone was trying to break in to the house.
It took me a few seconds to realize "Oh, I guess they decided not to land the shuttle in Florida."
-- I have monkeys in my pants.
Psshh. Everyone knows that Lance Armstrong was the first man on the moon. DUH!
Today I didn't even have to use my AK; I got to say it was a good day -- Icecube
I think he's made it pretty clear what he thinks of the moon hoaxers!
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