Discovery Lands Safely!

[hippietim]

Great news!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8825954/

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[IrfaanSE801]

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That is good news [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[Newc]

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Cool [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

I was preparing for the worst since they had to do the repairs to the hull in space. I mean, this is the one time where it IS rocket science [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Just because you can drive it doesn't always mean you can fix it, y'know? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Tetsuo]

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I watched the landing this morning and had a sigh of relief... This whole mission was nerve racking

[Budman68]

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<font color="aqua">I know it costs a lot of money for this stuff but how cool is that!?! I've been into watching this stuff since I was a kid and I still can't believe we're to the point now where we can rocket into space and "fly" back.....just incredible... [img]/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img] </font>

[semagic]

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[img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] hopefully we can learn from this one... and make further advances [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

[YetAnotherOne]

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A couple of (IMHO) just amazing photos from STS-114 that might not have made the rounds:

[Budman68]

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[hippietim]

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awesome pics Brad - thanks for sharing those!

[Shawn Lutz]

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Had about 290,000 people watching the landing, 35 gig of outbound bandwidth

Here's a pic I thought was funny. Duct tape, don't leave earth without it [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


That was a makhshift hacksaw that they made to cut the tile filling on the bottom of the shuttle. Turns out during the space walk that they didnt need it as the filler just came out with a tug [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Evol]

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You shoulda heard the BOOM at like 5am this morning,had everyone in the neighborhood out looking st the sky to see the trails.Freakin LOUD [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[veliyasin]

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[StukaJU87]

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Awesome stuff. Thanks for the pics too.

[Newc]

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Love that last pic of the astronut - makes the Shuttle look like the Death Star [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[lerxstcat]

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Thank God Discovery landed safely! Thanks too to Brad for the awesome pics and for everyone whose good wishes flew with Discovery! [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]Space really is the final frontier, the toughest to tame yet the greatest chapter of human history is yet to come!God bless NASA and our astronaut corps!