NASA SHUTTLE LAUNCH PICTURE PERFECT:
LIVE TV PHOTOS
CLICK ON THUMBNAIL TO SEE "LIVE" ON TV PHOTO OF SHUTTLE LAUNCH ON 7/26/05...why doesn't my TV have a printer so I can print out photos or zap the still images directly to my PC -- I feel archaic -- shooting photos off of TV using a digital camera?
Space -- the final frontier...science fiction becomes science fact once again.
Discovery rocketed aloft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:39 a.m. PDT,"On behalf of the many millions of people who believe so deeply in what we do, good luck, Godspeed and have a little fun up there," NASA launch director Mike Leinbach told the crew
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The launch was scrutinized by 112 cameras, and an array of radars, sensors and other imaging equipment so that NASA can assess how well the newly modified external fuel tank worked. It was foam from the tank that damaged Columbia.
Woman Commander Collins -- GO GIRL!!!
The shuttle, carrying its commander Collins, pilot Jim Kelly, Japan's Soichi Noguchi and astronauts Charles Camarda, Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas and Wendy Lawrence, was scheduled to reach the orbital outpost on Thursday for a week-long stay.
HUMANS TO THE MOON -- after 2010? President Bush has instructed NASA to retire the shuttle fleet in 2010, after completion of the space station, and to design a new generation of space craft capable of returning humans to the moon and of taking them to Mars and beyond.
Cheers and relief at New Orleans NASA plant and
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