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Safe Landing For Space Shuttle Discovery

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the made-it-back-done dept.

dylanduck writes "Discovery is back safe and sound, despite minor problems with a leaky power unit and a last minute change of approach direction to the runway. The mission tested some post-Columbia safety changes, and also set up the space station for future construction. But in some ways, the tough job starts now - NASA has just 40 days or so to get Atlantis up."

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  1. Welcome back! by dubmun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Um.... now... take off again. 16 more missions to complete the space station?

    Space shuttle pilot would not be the life for me!

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    1. Re:Welcome back! by Xzzy · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'd sign up for it in a new york minute.

      Unfortunatley, I'm fat, blind, and my flying experience is limited to dumping quarters into Afterburner when I was a kid.

      If NASA ever needs someone to do barrel rolls and shoot lots of missiles, maybe then they'll invite me along.

    2. Re:Welcome back! by Mayhem178 · · Score: 2, Funny

      NASA has just 40 days or so to get Atlantis up.

      Bah! The Stargate team only had a matter of hours to get Atlantis up before they drowned, and they managed just fine. NASA should take a page out of their book.

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      "You will pay for your lack of vision..." - Emperor Palpatine to Ray Charles

  2. Atlantis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It won't be easy, the wraith will find it soon and the power cells can only last so long.

  3. Fun Fact! by saboola · · Score: 5, Funny

    Upon entering Kennedy Space Center, Homeland Security made the crew take off their shoes, belts, and put laptops into plastic bins before entering.

    1. Re:Fun Fact! by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 3, Funny

      May be apocryphal, but more than one of my ROTC buddies from college have stories about needing to go to a high-level government or military installation in Iraq, stopping at the security gate to make sure they don't have a bomb, then being handed back their M-16 so they can continue on their way.

  4. Re:Good news indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Rope ladder.

  5. Re:Good news indeed by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somehow, I don't think I thought my cunning plan all the way through.

  6. Re:Journaists and public perception by helioquake · · Score: 3, Funny

    And most importantly... no Miles O'Brien on CSPAN!