As The NASA Shuttle Program Nears Its End...

[St Landrew]

...I came across a time lapse film, posted on my VFR bike forum:

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d3f_1274841313

 

I particularly liked the bit where the Shuttle is rotated to the vertical and lifted high into the VAB.

[chrisobee]

Thanks, a great cure for insomnia

[Saint in Paradise]

You all do realise that the aliens on the Moon have forbidden Man to go into Space much higher than just Earth orbit right ?

 

 

 

:D:D

 

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[Huffton]

Thats pretty bloody impressive. You hear stories about how big the OPF is but you can't really put it into perspective until you see that.

[hamster]

clicked a few links on that site and was inpressed at one shuttle landing report. Took 2 attempts due to clouds, astronauts just did another orbit of the earth! Not quite the same as missing your turn off on a motorway is it, wonder what that woman in my SatNav would have had to say about that one?