Comments | ontd_political: U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords celebrates liftoff of husband's Endeavour flight in person

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U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords celebrates liftoff of husband's Endeavour flight in person

May 16, 2011 13:55

Kennedy Space Center, Florida (CNN) -- The Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head just four months ago sat comfortably Monday morning, watching and cheering as the space shuttle Endeavour, with her husband aboard, took off on its final voyage.

Mark Kelly commands the shuttle's 16-day mission to the International Space Station. His wife, U.S ( Read more... )

gabrielle giffords, nasa

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wrestlingdog May 16 2011, 18:36:11 UTC

NGL, I got a little choked up.

joshlymanftw May 16 2011, 18:45:40 UTC

HOORAY for science, which allowed the Congresswoman to be there and allowed the flight itself to occur! Science be praised!

Also can you freaking imagine watching someone you love being LAUNCHED INTO SPACE?!?!? I get uncomfortable when my boyfriend has to fly from New York to LA. But OUTER SPACE?!? WITH NO GRAVITY?!?!? Such a mindfuck I cannot even.

xforge May 17 2011, 18:26:53 UTC

Never mind the gravity, let's talk about policy jagoffs and their insistence on strapping our people on top of giant fricking bombs when the engineers came up with less dangerous and less costly alternatives before most of the people reading this were old enough to type.

4eyedblonde May 16 2011, 19:20:29 UTC

This is so sweet! It makes me teary-eyed just reading about it! Good stuff!

suthrncan May 16 2011, 21:44:09 UTC

I love their story!! Such an inspiring and amazing couple!

Godspeed Endeavour!!!

normaltrouble May 16 2011, 21:49:34 UTC

Endeavour is scheduled to return to Earth on June 1. That is the same day the space shuttle Atlantis is slated to roll out to the launch pad in anticipation of the final mission in the space shuttle program's 30-year history.

The shuttle program's end -- and the uncertainly surrounding the future of NASA and the U.S. space program -- has been a hot topic in recent months. Michael D. Leinbach, NASA's shuttle launch director, acknowledged Saturday that "the mood is a little bit downcast" in the space agency, especially as some NASA employees recently received notices warning that they could lose their jobs.

"The timing is a little unfortunate, but we've all known it's been coming," he said.

I want us to have a space program! This is sad!

And Congreesperson Giffords = Amazing!
Yay for her and her recovery.

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normaltrouble May 17 2011, 07:43:50 UTC

I was 11-12 the first moon landing, the landing was just before my birthday:)

The same year, Mr. Kubrick and Mr. Clarke made me pretty sure we would have small colonies on the moon by now.
I am ignoring the whole monolith thing. It's actually a stone circular ring with Egyptian astronomical symbols on it, but shhhh....

I know we have severe problems and money is tight, and there are people who need our help on earth, but still...without the war on drugs, the 2-3 wars abroad and the war on the poor, we might actually have resources to help meet our various hopes, dreams, goals, wishes about the stars.

How cool would it be for 5-11 people to go to Mars and land in 2026?