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STS-119 Finally Launches Into Space

Posted by kdawson on from the third-time's-the-charm dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "After several delays, including twice over the past week, the space shuttle Discovery has finally been launched into space. The spacecraft took off at precisely 7:43 p.m. EDT, embarking on the STS-119 mission, which will provide the International Space Station with the fourth and final set of solar arrays — and which will make the ISS brighter than Venus. The shuttle will also deliver to the ISS its newest crew member, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, who will replace flight engineer Sandra Magnus at the station."

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  1. According to various authors, we should be at by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    According to various authors, we should be at Jupiter and beyond by now. What's this piddle about an ISS then? And it's not really a "space station", is it? It's more of an orbiting "mobile home", and probably smells much worse.

    I for one cannot get excited over this same ol' same ol' time after time and then do it again stuff.

  2. Suck it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want to chill my cock in your mouth.

  3. fuck you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your father reeks of gasoline and your mother is a whore.

  4. Re:so long by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When will they ever talk about the things we really want to know:

    1) Who has had sex in space?
    2) What is zero-g ejaculation like? Does it make floating semen balls?
    3) What about bendy straws for cleanup?
    4) What does it feel like to fuck a goat in space?
    5) How often do UFOs dock or simply do flybys?

  5. The people have spoken by smittyoneeach · · Score: -1, Troll

    "We'd" rather have the US turned into an EU-style socialist ghetto
    than continue to have the US lead in space and overall human development.
    It's more important that we all fail together than support a few succeeding, and then subsequently dragging the rest along.
    Democracy is not a grant of corporate wisdom, alas.
    But we get these velvet handcuffs as a consolation prize.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear