You know when the shuttle lands when.....
 

You hear two loud as hell sonic booms! :) I forgot Discovery was landing this morning, and when I heard it, I ran to see it land on TV. I know the sound well.. Its louder than thunder... shakes the windows, and feels like a truck hit your house. lol... crazy..

I can't believe we are going back to an Apollo type vehicle next.. to me, that's going back, not forward. I understand the need to use a module like this for landing on the moon, but as a transport module/ship... blah. I wish they didn't kill the X-33... It had design and other issues, but hell, I'm sure the shuttle did as it was being developed.

Anyone hear it come in? (Florida, maybe Georgia members?)

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I live in Titusville, FL. My wife was raised here.

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I'm so glad that I don't live anywhere near that - would do my head in.

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Did ya hear it? I'm in Lakeland..

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Oh Yea!! Seen it all,,,,and have T-shirts!!!(NOT). I work indirectly in the Space biz. I'm a CP tech and do part time work here in T-ville. Z, you should really try to see a night launch before the Shuttle goes away, it's quite a sight!

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Call me cynical but I lost interest in short trips to the moon etc. awhile ago.

Wake me up when it looks something like this :D

http://abqscalemodelers.com/Cochrane...BoxArt-400.jpg

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I actually did see one way back in 1989 or 1990.. right after I moved here. I was lucky because it has to be REALLY clear to see it from Lakeland. I think they did the turn in a better direction for us to see--when the launch for a higher orbit for the space station, it does a longer arc, right?

It seriously lit the entire sky looking east! Like the sun coming up! I do plan on going to KSC and watching/recording and taking high res pics of a Launch before it's retired. (I kinda hope they extend the date)..

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Umm looks like what? All I'm seeing is a box with a red x in it.


Update, scratch that. Apparrently it just didn't want to load that time. All's well.