STS-119 Finally Launches Into Space 83
Iddo Genuth writes "After several delays, including twice over the past week, the space shuttle Discovery has finally been launched into space. The spacecraft took off at precisely 7:43 p.m. EDT, embarking on the STS-119 mission, which will provide the International Space Station with the fourth and final set of solar arrays — and which will make the ISS brighter than Venus. The shuttle will also deliver to the ISS its newest crew member, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, who will replace flight engineer Sandra Magnus at the station."
Full Power for Full Science (Score:3, Insightful)
I really liked that line.
Re:Good Luck Boys (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Good Luck Boys (Score:5, Insightful)
At this point i'm hoping there will be a "next generation of spacecraft" in my lifetime.
where's that... one sec:
I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the last.
Dr. Jerry Eugene Pournelle
Re:Great Job NASA @ crew. (Score:3, Insightful)
gosh I don't know, maybe NASA's slightly more interested in getting plain facts out instead of hyping every latest piece of new information to maximum sensationalistic mediagasm proportions?