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Shuttle Cameras Yield Excellent Footage
Jivecat writes "All those extra cameras NASA has added to the Space Shuttle to watch for debris impacts have yielded what may be the coolest Shuttle launch footage ever. The forward-facing view from the right-hand SRB shows, at about the 2:58 mark, booster separation and Discovery zooming away. Other views are available at the main mission site."
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
You can't handle the truth.
is it better to send rockets at Spain than Morocco? I hope it's not because you think Morocco is filled with radical muslims who would see such rockets as an attack from the evil west...
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If so, you do realize that Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States as a nation - and is still considered the longest-standing ally of the United States?
From testimony in the congressional record: http://wwwa.house.gov/international_relations/109
I think it is important
to remember that the Kingdom of Morocco is our oldest and most enduring ally.
The relationship between Morocco and the United States of America has existed
throughout the history of our country. In December of 1777, when war raged
between the American Colonies and Britain, Sultan Sidi Mohammed boldly
recognized our young and not yet free Republic. That magnanimous act of
recognition was cemented in a Treaty of Peace and Friendship between our
countries, ratified in July of 1787. And that enduring document remains the oldest
unbroken treaty in the history of the foreign relations of the United States.
The United States has had no better nor more constant friend and ally in the
Maghreb, in North Africa, and in the Arab World, than Morocco.
Whoa, calm down. I was simply saying that SRB seperation happens over the ocean so they'll splash down and not come to an explosive thud in Morocco (about where they would go if they were released later). Spain is the trans-Atlantic landing site, so if we needed to abort and land there, the SRBs would be ejected so that they would still splash down and NOT hit Morocco or something.
Go easy on the "all Americans are racist idiots who think any country with sand is an enemy" juice.
And yes, I knew of the long history between the US and Morocco. It's one of the more interesting parts of American history that one of our first military acts (post-independence) was in the Mediterranean (we've never been able to leave the area alone for long), with, among others, the newly completed USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") fighting pirates of Tripoli (thus "...to the shores of Tripoli..."), Algiers, Tunis, and, yes, Morocco. Morocco wasn't really involved in the war, it seems, and is just mentioned because of some alleged support of the pirates and the three other city-states. Much (if not all) of the action was against Tripoli. Morocco remained friendly to the US, albeit strained, through the conflict.