Farewell Space Shuttle...we will miss ya

vinbuck

The last shuttle mission lifted off today....kinda bittersweet for me. I remember where I was for both disasters...coming home from second grade for Challenger and sitting in my office surfing the Internet for Columbia. I'll really miss the shuttle and I hope they can secure funding to develop an even better vehicle to go into space.

Atlantis launch a bittersweet end for space shuttle | Cutting Edge - CNET News

exampasser

There is a future spaceship in development (although it's being developed by a private company):
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/07/will-this-spaceship-replace-shuttle/

onesaint

MississippiGuardsman wrote: »

The last shuttle mission lifted off today....kinda bittersweet for me. I remember where I was for both disasters...coming home from second grade for Challenger and sitting in my office surfing the Internet for Columbia. I'll really miss the shuttle and I hope they can secure funding to develop an even better vehicle to go into space.

Atlantis launch a bittersweet end for space shuttle | Cutting Edge - CNET News

When I was a kid they rolled one of the shuttles down the street near my grandparent's house (out near Edwards AFB, Ca.). It was on a long tractor trailer going about 2 miles an hour. Needless to say, the Shuttle had a nice following of people walking with it and I was fortunate enough to be one of them. Pretty cool for a kid to be able to touch a ship that breaches the exosphere.

Deathgomper

When Challenger exploded I was in first grade, everyone was all excited about the first woman in space. Almost as soon as it exploded our teacher gasped, jumped up and shut off the TV.

I was working construction when Columbia went, watched it on the news that night.

I like the space program more for the inventions and cool stuff that come out of failed experiments. The launches are cool too!