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    Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins

    NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    05/11/09

    In reply to Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
    But will the rescue crew include Bruce Willis?
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    05/11/09

    In reply to Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
    Still a little ticked off about how the Shuttle program put big delays in a lot of robot space science in the 1980s. Never put all your eggs in one basket.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    05/11/09

    @corpore-metal: The Shuttle program also really changed NASA's priorities from space exploration to scientific studies in orbit.
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    Image of OlavRokne OlavRokne
    05/11/09

    In reply to Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
    I'm kind of glad to see the end of the Shuttle era -- not because I'm anti-shuttle, but because it will hopefully usher in a new era of spaceflight.


    It feels like the shuttles are a decade overdue for retirement and Space is still being explored with something that seemed high-tech in 1979.

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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    05/11/09

    @OlavRokne: I somewhat agree - Atlantis was supposed to retire last year...
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/11/09

    @OlavRokne: Yeah, the space elevator is long overdue.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    05/11/09

    In reply to Two Space Shuttles Prepped For Launch, In One Of Their Very Final Missions... To Probe Our Cosmic Origins
    Successful Launch!
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    Image of estapler estapler
    04/14/09

    In reply to NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission
    It has nothing to do with space junk. The HST orbit's angle of inclination is a completely different angle from the ISS's orbit. That means that when they launch into the HST's orbit, there's no possible way that they could dock with the ISS. If something goes wrong during the launch, like foam critically damaging the Orbiter's tiles, they'll have no place to go and no way to get home. So they launch a rescue vehicle, but since they have no "safe haven" for the original crew to hang out at like the ISS, the rescue vehicle will need to be on the second pad, ready to go. Time will be of the essence. BTW, the last shuttle mission to NOT go to the ISS...Columbia.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    04/18/09

    @estapler: Well, yes, but there is a larger chance that they'll hit something in Hubble's orbit. I mean, they've gone up to that orbit before, without the ISS's existence to fall back on, and they've never prepped a second shuttle before.
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    04/14/09

    In reply to NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission
    Go get em NASA!


    MY SPACE PR0N SUPPLY MUST NOT BE COMPROMISED.

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    Image of joshtate joshtate
    04/14/09

    @phoenix: /me compromises it greatly
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    04/15/09

    @Josh Tate: Why do you hate freedom?
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    Image of 浴武士!!!! I'd like to start a manga like that 浴武士!!!! I'd like to start a manga like that
    04/14/09

    In reply to NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission
    wait...if theres a risk of one shuttle colliding with space junk...wouldnt the rescue shuttle have a larger risk of colliding with more space junk?....


    just build a space elevator dammit

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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    04/14/09

    @浴武士!!!! I'd like to start a manga like that: And then let the elevator collide with the junk?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    04/14/09

    In reply to NASA Preps Space Shuttle For Possible Rescue Mission
    "Yea... just lift up that ring right there... ooh that's a nice giant Red Spot... oh yeah..."
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    04/14/09

    @crashedpc:

    Never has Hubble seemed seedier.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    04/14/09

    @Belabras Ate My Baby!: PC has that effect on many things.
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