Endeavour Arrives At California Science Center 57
The final mission of the Endeavour has been completed. The shuttle has arrived at its final home, the California Science Center. From the article: "After a dramatic three-day parade through city streets, Endeavour arrived at its new home at the California Science Center shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday amid cheers from thousands gathered to witness a piece of history.
'Mission 26 — Mission Accomplished,' Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at a news conference at Exposition Park, the shuttle rising behind him as a backdrop. The mayor was referencing the shuttle’s 25 space missions and its journey across the city.
The 85-ton orbiter pulled up next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and ground to a halt so that the mayor and others could officially mark its arrival at the park near the USC campus.
'Today everyone in the city of Los Angeles is an astronaut,' said L.A. Fire Department Chief Brian Cummings at the news conference."
Arrived at it is final home? (Score:4, Funny)
Yuo feil inglesh forevar!
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It's been demonstrated by the Knight group at the University of Colorado, in mice, that individuals with a very specific immune defect will accrue a specific kind of bacteria (Bacteriodetes) in their intestines. The presence of this bacteria has been shown to cause dramatic weight gain in the host, because of how it modifies the nutrients that are left over in the gut. Transplanting these bacteria into the inte
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I don't know much more beyond what I've already said, but I'd guess that it has something to do with how we farm meat. Similar to how the parasites that caused colony collapse disorder spread amongst bees, factory farming is a very efficient environment for the spread of undesirable microbes and diseases—and because the animals affected would probably get fatter quicker, it would be seen as a good thing to a farmer.
As for psychological effects, I think it's safe to assume that a lot of people who are
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You're completely off-topic, but to reward your curiosity I'll gladly take the hit to my karma.
It's been demonstrated by the Knight group at the University of Colorado, in mice, that individuals with a very specific immune defect will accrue a specific kind of bacteria (Bacteriodetes) in their intestines. The presence of this bacteria has been shown to cause dramatic weight gain in the host, because of how it modifies the nutrients that are left over in the gut. Transplanting these bacteria into the intestines of healthy mice can cause dramatic weight gain, and it's strongly believed that the same phenomenon occurs in humans.
So how come it doesn't affect other countries with the same genetic stock as the USA? (ie. Most of Europe)
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Me Fail English? Thats Unpossible. (Score:2)
"Me Fail English? Thats Unpossible [youtube.com]."
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Don't you know that space radiation mutates grammar?
LA Astronauts? (Score:5, Funny)
'Today everyone in the city of Los Angeles is an astronaut,' said L.A. Fire Department Chief Brian Cumming
I hope for the sake of the astronauts that the reverse isn't true.
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The LA Astronauts stole three hub caps an but a few bullet holes in the Shuttle. Although it was thought that the bullet holes were merely collateral damage from the normal gang shootings. Gangsters really can't shoot very well. I mean, come on! What moron holds a gun sideways?
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Geeze.
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I've seen lots of people though the years say such thing, I see it as sort of 'the halfway point' of a lucid point of view, not in their own lives, but generational (perhaps you're a gen-xer?). However, ask yourself this: when was the last time you muttered that word about another person? A black guy who cut you off you off on the highway, perhaps a slow store clerk, or a young man with baggy pants and a strait billed hat, statistically all them are likely tax payers and many of them have families to sup
It should've had a parade (Score:2)
It should've had a ticker tape parade.
Instead it gets a 3-day long crawl through LA neighborhoods past people eating at Quiznos and workers taking a break at the Firestone tire shop as people take pictures and wave flags. This could've been bigger. It should've been bigger. NASA, do you even have a PR department?
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NASA, do you even have a PR department?
Not with the Budget.
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Like so many things here, many people will say "Only a handful of nerds care about stuff like that". The space program used to be a point of national pride and global hope for the future.
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The two largest parades in the country, the Rose Parade and the Macy's parade both take place on streets that are 60 feet wide, which isn't nearly wide enough for the shuttle. The only route that would have been wide enough for both the shuttle and a lot of spectators would have been a freeway, which would have incurred significant risk getting the shuttle onto the freeway.
Even without the ticker tape treatment, a million people still viewed it along the route.
Yes lets all celebrate! (Score:5, Funny)
Yes lets all celebrate our national decline as represented here by our voluntary loss of manned space flight capability! Your parents saw us put men on the moon... not just once but repeatedly. Now we can't even get our ass off the planet without help from the Russians. Damn that calls for a parade!
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My thoughts exactly. I get that the shuttles were aging technology. But NASA did describe them as "pickup trucks", well I've seen some beat up pickup trucks on farms that still keep going.
I saw the Challenger disaster live, but without risk there is no gain. Several lessons were learned from that.
It is a sad end to an era, and people seem to be cheering it on.
Now it is the Russians and for-profit industry that will make those science/adventure movies reality.
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How long between the last Saturn V carried a human into space and the Shuttle first carried one?
Just trying to add that oh-so-missing item here, perspective...
That would be just a tad over 8 years.
December 6, 1972 - Apollo 17
April 12, 1981 - STS-1
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The last flight of an Apollo command module was actually ended February 8, 1974, when the third Skylab mission returned to Earth. The gap would be closer to 6 years not eight, but the point still stands.
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actually, it was July 15-21 1975 [historicspacecraft.com] which marked the successful docking of Apollo and Soyuz. So 5 years :)
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The original post was correct, Apollo 17 was the last manned launch of a Saturn V. The Apollo half of Apollo-Soyuz went up on a Saturn IB.
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if I were responding to GGPP I would have responded directly to it rather than one of its descendant posts. :)
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Just to be even more pedantic, since the question was "How long between the last Saturn V carried a human into space and the Shuttle first carried one?" The manned Skylab shots were done on top of a Saturn IB, not a Saturn V, since they were just to LEO. Skylab itself was boosted up on a Saturn V, but no crew.
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It's not a parade, it's a funeral procession.
Dice, you can HAVE Slashdot... (Score:1)
... if you promise to hire some editors who were awake in school. "The shuttle has arrived at its final home...", not "it's."
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It was smoldering long before Obama. In a rare showing of nonpartisan unity, both parties have actively beaten it up ever since the end of the Cold War.
I almost wish China would hurry up and announce plans to plant a red flag on the red planet, just to completely freak out everyone in Washington and instantly elevate NASA to the top of their funding priority list. Obviously nobody sane wants a return to the Cold War, but a little healthy rivalry between worthy adversaries can be a good alternative to the co
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Anyone notice... (Score:1)
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It's just you. This is just the funeral celebration. The shuttle endeavor is now interred at its california mausoleum, a bit of ceremony is to be expected.
Frankly, the shuttles weren't that exciting as a space vehicle. At first, they were an interesting experiment, but the experiment showed that they were more costly than imagined and then they set us back by decades by taking funding and manpower that could have been spent on research into things that could actually work.
Typical L.A. Driving Experience (Score:3)
Take a vehicle capable of escape velocity and put it on the streets of L.A.: maxim speed is now two miles per hour (with lots of stops while waiting for traffic to clear).
Cheers,
Dave
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> Why not have kept the 400 and planted 1000 more?
Because then, the Shuttle would still be sitting in LAX's parking lot, unable to move anywhere due to the trees in the way. And the funding for those 1,000 trees exists only because people want to see the shuttle at the museum. Without a shuttle to motivate cutting down the trees and create a need to replace them with more than twice as many, the money would end up getting spent on beer & hookers, or buying a new tank for the LAPD to accidentally terr
My visit (Score:3, Interesting)
I visited the Shuttle just after midnight just before it entered Martin Luther King Blvd. I hoped that by being there late at night I could avoid the crowds and poor parking. (Unfortunately, it also avoided restrooms.) They had engine problems twice that delayed it for at least 3 more hours.
They used a zig-zag pattern to avoid trees and poles. They pre-removed or trimmed trees and poles in kind of an alternating pattern from the left and right side. They probably made a choice over whether the left or right side of a given section of road would be easier to clear, and veered away from the non-cleared side. In some places there were inches to spare.
One street-light that was unbolted and laid down was curiously still on. Somebody bumped a safety cone up against the light, and I moved it away to avoid burning it.
It was odd seeing a multi-billion-dollar space-ship rolling through lower-middle-class neighborhoods. It gave one a true sense of democracy. And being Los Angeles, there were ethnic groups from all over the globe there to watch the spaceship go by.
So going by the ad... (Score:2)
...your chances of becoming an astronaut are down from 1 in 13 million to 1 in 1832.
I'll take some of that action.
How to go to to space then (Score:1)