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Last Night Shuttle Launch tonight! 1:36AM 8/25/09

 
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PostPosted: Aug 24, 2009 2:25 pm    Post subject: Last Night Shuttle Launch tonight! 1:36AM 8/25/09 Reply with quote
Only 6 more shuttle launches after this one... 5 are daytime launches and 1 is expected to be early morning (before sunrise) launch... but that could always be rescheduled, so this might be the very last night time launch ever!

If all goes well the shuttle will launch at 1:36:05 a.m. ET on Tuesday 8/25/09. Apparently the entire southeast coast should get a good look at it in the night sky. The weather looks good up and down the east coast for tonight and so far the fueling is going well at the Space Coast.

Here is the info about it.

http://news.yahoo.com/...0824/sc_space/spaceshuttlelaunchvisiblefromeastcoast

Here's the expected visibility range of the launch:


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PostPosted: Aug 24, 2009 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What happens after these six launches? Is NASA losing its funding?
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PostPosted: Aug 24, 2009 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
i want to see it. bummer
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PostPosted: Aug 24, 2009 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
gporter, shuttles are out dated and being retired
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PostPosted: Aug 24, 2009 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
gporter wrote:
What happens after these six launches? Is NASA losing its funding?

The space shuttle has served the country well the past few decades but it's expensive to operate and super old/outdated equipment, so they planned to end the program in 2010 from lack of funding. Congress will be offering funding for a new program to Nasa called the Constellation program, which will have it's first launch into space in March 2015. It's a completely different type of "shuttle".. they've been calling it a capsule.. there are two of them, "Ares" and "Orion". I saw some pictures but I have no idea how it works.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/index.html
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