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NASA Sets Dates For Space Shuttle Finale

Posted by timothy on from the oh-but-they-always-stand-us-up dept.

coondoggie writes "After some debate, NASA today said it has set the final two launch dates for its venerable space shuttles: Nov. 1 for space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission, and Feb. 26, 2011, for the liftoff of shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission. NASA said the dates needed to be adjusted because critical payload hardware for STS-133 will not be ready in time to support the planned Sept. 16 launch."

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  1. Lost by assertation · · Score: 4, Funny

    I sure hope NASA does a better job with their finale, then the producers of Lost did with theirs.

    1. Re:Lost by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hopefully better than the Sopranos too. It's not good when the shuttle signal sudd

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  2. Uhh.... by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's fine if they want to have a grand finale, but I still think it's safer to just fly the thing back down to earth in one piece.

  3. Oh... they mean the final flights... by ATestR · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I first read the title "... Space Shuttle Finale", I thought imagined that they intended to set the two remaining shuttles up at the same time, and then on reentry cause them to come down together in a massive game of chicken.

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  4. It's over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    After Space X's Falcon 9 blew up taking half of Florida with it and costing a billion dollars at that we'll never get back to space. Our only hope is spending another 9 billion and five more years with Ares. Only NASA and it's bloated contractor costs can truly open space for all. It's too bad we gave commercial space flight the monopoly on space flight back in the 60s. Only if NASA had led the way for the last 50 years we'd be at Mars already. Total Recall would've been a documentary.

    Truly, we are doomed.

  5. Re:After That... by sycodon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Every Russian limo driver I've seen in the movies are really bad guys who are usually taking you to a very bad place.

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  6. Re:After That... by Mercano · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Our Russian mission commander is Pikov Andropov."

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  7. AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGHHH by Ginger+Unicorn · · Score: 2, Funny

    So 2 days after i book a £600 holiday to florida to watch sts-133 on september the 16th, they postpone the launch till november 1st. Why couldn't they do this last week? AAAAAARRRRRGGHH.

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