Last flight of the shuttle today...

[drew]

...assuming the weather is ok. End of an era, m'thinks.

No more Concorde, no more Space Shuttle. The 21st century isn't living up to the dreams of my 8 year space-enthusiast inner child.

Cheers,

Drew.

[Killer Wolf]

the previous one was a live broadcast, i'm assuming it'll be on here again
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
tho i heard there was a good chance storms were going to delay the launch...?

[DaddyHoggy]

...assuming the weather is ok. End of an era, m'thinks.

No more Concorde, no more Space Shuttle. The 21st century isn't living up to the dreams of my 8 year space-enthusiast inner child.

Cheers,

Drew.

I hear you loud and clear and concur absolutely.

[Cody]

Indeed!

[Killer Wolf]

i'm still sad Moeller's Skycar isn't generally available in showrooms

[drew]

I fully expected to be booking a regular hotel room in this...



Cheers,

Drew.

[stop4stuff]

Watch live via http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

approx 12 minutes until launch!

[drew]

Moved to blog about it straightaway.

http://www.wagar.org.uk/?p=2220

Cheers,

Drew.

[Commander McLane]

I fully expected to be booking a regular hotel room in this...

Don't despair! You'll always have a special room of yours in this:

[CommonSenseOTB]

i'm still sad Moeller's Skycar isn't generally available in showrooms

They are but not on this planet.

So who wants to bet on how long it will be after the last shuttle launch before NASA(or more likely the U.S.Defense Department) unveils a super secret hypersonic space plane that can do some of what the shuttle does now? The only other possibilities that they will admit to in the media have to do with plasma rockets(these could actually be a disguise to hide a real laser fusion rocket). That's just speculation but the money (100's of billions) has to be going somewhere.

[tonycro]

And according to my friends at http://www.heavens-above.com it's not going to be visible from my patch of sky and that's was my last chance to photographs the ISS and the Orbiter togerher till someone replaces it

tony