Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns Home 24
Digitus1337 writes to mention the news that Space Shuttle Atlantis has returned to Earth after a successful twelve-day mission. Everything involving the mission went smoothly, resulting in high praise from NASA officials. The only drama came from 'mysterious' debris floating alongside the shuttle; this turned out to likely be trash from the cargo bay accidentally released into space. From the article: "The unplanned drama threatened to overshadow what had been a nearly flawless mission filled with strenuous spacewalks and rigorous robotics work that placed the space station back on a path to completion after its long hiatus. The crew of five men and one woman were the longest-trained in NASA history, because they were originally supposed to fly to the space station in 2003. But the Columbia accident kept them grounded."
Take the quotes off... (Score:1, Offtopic)
Of course they'll say that.
And all the other UFOs were, of course, flocks of geese and meteorological balloons and whatnot.
The government is just trying to hush it up.
Remarkable success, really... governments don't usually succeed in anything else but hushing up UFOs.
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That the sole purpose of governments is to conceal the existance of the UFOs, of course.
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At least it wasn't more of that Ori trash. ;)
Trash from the shuttle? (Score:4, Funny)
Other drama (Score:2)
Plastic carrier bags in space? (Score:1)
When I heard the theory that at least one of the UFOsmay have been a plastic bag my instant thought was "I know that carrier bags can blow high in the air, but *that* high?" B^>
Rgds
Damon
Photo of Atlantis and ISS transiting the sun (Score:5, Interesting)
...in color (Score:3, Informative)
It's also today's APOD [nasa.gov] picture:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060921.html [nasa.gov]
For those who were "too lazy; didn't read" the comments on the badastronomy page, the transit only lasted one second. So not only was it great camera work, it was great timing, too.
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You kind of think of it differently when you see the pictures taken in orbit. But when you see something actually taken from the ground, and think that it's up there floating around it makes you think completely differently.
New NASA Rule: No burritos in the hanger (Score:3, Funny)
woke me up (Score:2)
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ZPM (Score:1)
Meanwhile... (Score:2)
The shuttle commander's name is Jett! For real... (Score:2)
That goes along with a couple of other weird name/profession matches that I have heard about: My dad's dentist when he was a kid was "Mr. Molar", and the school where my wife was an after-school program mentor for a while had a shop teacher, "Mr. Wood". This is all 100% for real. Again, too funny.
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