Shuttle Flatlines

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Dec 162011
 

NASA Shuts Doors, Pulls Plug on Shuttle Discovery

NASA powered down the space shuttle Discovery for a final time Friday (Dec. 16), more than 28 years after the agency’s retired fleet leader first came alive. The vehicle was “unplugged” inside Orbiter Processing Facility-1 (OPF-1) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Awww.

I has a sad.

Hopefully the February launch of a SpaceX Dragon to the ISS will make things a little less hopeless-looking.

 Posted by at 10:40 pm

  3 Responses to “Shuttle Flatlines”

  1. Deep Beam says:
    December 17, 2011 at 8:42 am

    That is pretty sad, and I agree that Dragon is our best hope right now. February 7th can’t come soon enough!

  2. Murgatroyd says:
    December 17, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    Sad indeed.

    I wonder if and when the X-37C will fly? For that matter, the X-37B has approximately the cargo volume of a minivan; what would it take to outfit it with a couple of seats and a day’s worth of life support?

  3. Kelly Starks says:
    December 19, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    Hell, I doubt SpaceX will ever do enough with all their Dragons to equal what Discovery did.

    Sad sad day.

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