Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely 668
Tuxedo Jack writes "CNN and NASA report that the space shuttle Discovery has landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Concerns for its safe return were raised when spacewalks were necessary to repair the vehicle when external components were damaged; however, the shuttle landed safely with Commander Eileen Collins at the control yoke."
woman driver lands shuttle safely (Score:4, Funny)
Good. (Score:2, Funny)
Good to know. (Score:3, Funny)
It's important that we have female shuttle pilots.
I mean, what if the core of the earth suddenly stopped spinning, and we needed to send a team down to jump start the core? If the core did that they could probably make a movie about the core doing that...
They could call it "The middle of the planet"... or something.
IM transcript (Score:5, Funny)
-Mark
Re:Good. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cost of landing at Edwards.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Almost Home (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously, they use the 747 like nearly everyone else has said. They've been doing it since the days of the Enterprise (the first shuttle, which was never certified for flight because of the destructive vibration tests it went through).
Chip H.
Re:Almost Home (Score:2, Funny)
Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Women Space Pilot (Score:4, Funny)
You didn't really say that, did you? Really?
*Staggers off in shock*
No cost (Score:2, Funny)
They will need to work around the blackout dates however.
Re:Faith in humans et al made them safe (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What an ordeal (Score:3, Funny)
Um, didn't you get the sequence of events reversed?
Re:Welcome home (Score:4, Funny)
Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What was that? (Score:5, Funny)
Then guest commentator James Dobson from Focus on the Family said "No! It's the holy spirit guiding them home, you liberal commie!" at which point Bill O'Reilly bust in and said "Shut up, shut UP! cut his mike".
Re:Welcome home (Score:2, Funny)
This is Slashdot, where we believe the only thins that should be sent into space are robots.
Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely (Score:4, Funny)
I bet you're hell to live with, haven't you got some pants to wash or shirts to iron?
Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Land the shuttle yourself (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Waste (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What was that? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bogus physics on CNN ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What was that? (Score:3, Funny)
I see skies of black
Black rocks tooooo
Tons of moon dust
and I see youuuuuuu
And I think to myself
What a wonderful weld...
Re:anyone else woken up by the sonic booms? (Score:2, Funny)
It took me a few seconds to realize "Oh, I guess they decided not to land the shuttle in Florida."
Re:What was that? (Score:3, Funny)
Psshh. Everyone knows that Lance Armstrong was the first man on the moon. DUH!
Re:What was that? (Score:3, Funny)