Atlantis blasts off on final space shuttle mission

[chantalzola]

The space shuttle Atlantis has blasted off on its final mission on Friday, ending the 30-year-old US space shuttle programme with a 12-day mission to the International Space Station

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[unsentimentalf]

I feel oldddddd! Remember being taken to Canaveral as a child and seeing the plans for the Space Shuttle they were building; the first proper spaceship. And then the pictures of that first landing, just like a plane... And watching Challenger explode, live, in a crowded university common room and the communal shock. I wish them best of luck today. It was a truly heroic programme.

[murf1307]

Well, that's a chapter of history ending.

I feel like, wow. What now? Where do we go from here? When do we go back to the moon? When do we go further?

Anybody else fervently praying for 4.4.2063? Come on, Zephram Cochran, you're like, my age. Get cracking. I want my goddamn Vulcans. Somebody are waiting for their jetpacks and flying cars, but I just want my First Contact, okay?

[just_say_narf]

Going to visit NASA when I was a kid was one of my favorite moments growing up. To think that no more shuttles will be launched for awhile makes me extremely sad.