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Posted: 6/18/2011 7:00:46 AM EDT

Note: Strongbacks still on Payload Bay doors as the payload has not been installed.

Posted: 6/18/2011 7:01:53 AM EDT

[#1]

She's going up in smoke.

Actually, they all go up in smoke and most folks call it a blastoff.

Posted: 6/18/2011 8:09:40 AM EDT

[#2]

One more of the old, high milage (120,650,907 miles ) girl. 33nd flight coming up.

View of the tail service mast, which contains the umbilical plates for liquid hydrogen and oxygen, and protects them during vehicle ascent.

Posted: 6/18/2011 8:15:07 AM EDT

[#3]

Very sad days ahead.

Posted: 6/18/2011 8:20:52 AM EDT

[#4]

Business end.

Main engines, OMS engines and RCS

Posted: 6/18/2011 8:24:07 AM EDT

[#5]

We'll be bumming rides from Russia and China soon.

Posted: 6/18/2011 8:29:45 AM EDT

[#6]

Nice pics. What do you do? Can I get a VIP pass to the last launch?

Posted: 6/18/2011 8:33:59 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv338/scubadown2/Lastflightofatlantis.jpg
http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv338/scubadown2/Lastflightofatlantis2-1.jpg
Note: Strongbacks still on Payload Bay doors as the payload has not been installed.

Good luck to the best of the rest of what is left. I left the program in April after almost 10 years.

Posted: 6/18/2011 8:59:52 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Can I get a VIP pass to the last launch?

If your last name is Obama!

Posted: 6/18/2011 9:08:34 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Can I get a VIP pass to the last launch?

If your last name is Obama!

They will scrub the launch again if Obama shows up

Posted: 6/18/2011 9:10:49 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Business end.
http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv338/scubadown2/Lastflightofatlantis4.jpg
Main engines, OMS engines and RCS

Can Obama take this spot duing launch?

Posted: 6/18/2011 10:38:54 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Business end.
http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv338/scubadown2/Lastflightofatlantis4.jpg
Main engines, OMS engines and RCS

Can Obama take this spot duing launch?

Light the match?

Posted: 6/18/2011 11:23:34 AM EDT

[#12]

Part of me is sad to see the Shuttles pass into history.

But the rest of me says, "Well, bye."

The Shuttle system was a 70's design. Let's move on.

Go SpaceX!!!!!

Posted: 6/18/2011 3:16:29 PM EDT

[#13]

Soo .. .what do you do?

Posted: 6/18/2011 7:38:50 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Part of me is sad to see the Shuttles pass into history.

But the rest of me says, "Well, bye."

The Shuttle system was a 70's design. Let's move on.

Go SpaceX!!!!!

I agree, lets move one. But, shouldn't we have had something ready before shutting down what we had?

Posted: 6/19/2011 9:27:22 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Part of me is sad to see the Shuttles pass into history.

But the rest of me says, "Well, bye."

The Shuttle system was a 70's design. Let's move on.

Go SpaceX!!!!!

I agree, lets move one. But, shouldn't we have had something ready before shutting down what we had?

Probably.

But what did we have between Apollo and the Shuttle?

Just sayin'.

Posted: 6/19/2011 9:28:43 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Part of me is sad to see the Shuttles pass into history.

But the rest of me says, "Well, bye."

The Shuttle system was a 70's design. Let's move on.

Go SpaceX!!!!!

I agree, lets move one. But, shouldn't we have had something ready before shutting down what we had?

That makes too much sense. Government doesn't like to have any real plans.

Posted: 6/19/2011 9:44:02 AM EDT

[#17]

I really wish I could get down there to see it.

Posted: 6/19/2011 10:00:30 AM EDT

[#18]

I admit to knowing next to nothing about the shuttles.....

Is/Was there any difference among shuttles?

Did some have different mission specialties or were they all basically the same vehicle?

I've always wondered why we needed 5 of them, if they were all just basically the same craft.

Posted: 6/19/2011 10:03:45 AM EDT

[#19]

Goodnight, sweet prince.

Posted: 6/19/2011 11:07:50 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Soo .. .what do you do?

Posted: 6/19/2011 11:12:48 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Soo .. .what do you do?

Obvious question is obvious.

Posted: 6/20/2011 11:47:40 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Soo .. .what do you do?

Obvious question is obvious.

I think we scared him off.

Posted: 6/20/2011 11:49:34 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Business end.

http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv338/scubadown2/Lastflightofatlantis4.jpg

Main engines, OMS engines and RCS

You rock, scubadown! Moar!!!

Posted: 6/20/2011 11:50:36 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Soo .. .what do you do?

Obvious question is obvious.

I think we scared him off.

Obviously, he's a door gunner, and had to go back undercover to keep from being compromised.

Posted: 6/20/2011 11:56:01 AM EDT

[#25]

Hope to see it take off on the 8th. Will be taking my 3 year old so she can she at least one shuttle lift off.

Posted: 6/20/2011 12:33:39 PM EDT

[#26]

Maybe he sneak info launch sites for a living?

I wish I could find some video of the launch with no narration... the kids love to watch the launch turned up real loud, but I don't need all the talking...

Posted: 6/20/2011 12:41:35 PM EDT

[#27]

I've always equated this scenario to quitting your job before you had another job lined up...you just never know what the fuck is going to happen, and you will most likely be screwed.

Posted: 6/20/2011 12:59:03 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Goodnight, sweet prince.

As flights of angels have sung thee to thy rest, let us now bid you a pleasant dreaming, and fair remembrance.

Posted: 6/20/2011 2:15:26 PM EDT

[#29]

I was lucky enough to be at KSC on 6/1/11 when the Endeavor landed and the Atlantis had been just moved out to the pad. Awsome site. Can you show us a pic of the new rocket?

Hope you're one of the lucky ones who will still have a job afterward.

Posted: 6/20/2011 2:34:26 PM EDT

[#30]

The plan was to have 4. Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis and Discovery. After Challenger, they built Endeavor "roughly" out of spare parts. Then we lost Columbia, leaving only three. There were 2 launch pads at KSC for STS, 39A and 39B. The idea was to have one orbiter being processed while one was being launched. They aren't like airplanes where they can launch right after they land.

Quoted:

I admit to knowing next to nothing about the shuttles.....

Is/Was there any difference among shuttles?

Did some have different mission specialties or were they all basically the same vehicle?

I've always wondered why we needed 5 of them, if they were all just basically the same craft.

Posted: 6/20/2011 2:44:51 PM EDT

[#31]

What have we "accomplished" in space (orbit) lately that warrants us to be up there much longer anyway?

Sure, we noodle-around with the Hubble here-and-there, but if it had been built right the first time...

I say git-r-done, then git-r-scrapped.

Posted: 6/20/2011 2:51:09 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

What have we "accomplished" in space (orbit) lately that warrants us to be up there much longer anyway?

Sure, we noodle-around with the Hubble here-and-there, but if it had been built right the first time...

I say git-r-done, then git-r-scrapped.

If it had been built "right" the first time, it would probably have been obsolete. However, the success of the first Hubble repair mission led to a number of significant upgrades that have allowed Hubble to continue collecting images far beyond the telescope's original service life.

Posted: 6/20/2011 3:11:16 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Soo .. .what do you do?

Obvious question is obvious.

I think we scared him off.

Maybe they retired him ahead of schedule.

Posted: 6/20/2011 3:41:00 PM EDT

[#34]

one of the few things i wished i would have done, but didn't, was attend a launch.

Posted: 6/20/2011 3:42:00 PM EDT

[#35]

I have never seen a shuttle launch.

Posted: 6/20/2011 3:43:12 PM EDT

[#36]

So what is the space shuttle's biggest achievement in its 30 year history?

Posted: 6/20/2011 3:45:05 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

So what is the space shuttle's biggest achievement in its 30 year history?

It took us away from real space travel and caused us to abandon heavy lift rockets.

Posted: 6/20/2011 3:54:08 PM EDT

[#38]

And 2300 more people are unemployed....

Posted: 6/20/2011 4:00:29 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Soo .. .what do you do?

Obvious question is obvious.

He posts pix of guys standing in front of Space Shuttles...duh.

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