Goodbye Discovery

Thanks for sharing the pictures, Helen...

Great pictures !!
--paul

Impressive photos indeed! It is sad, the last great North American achievement of our time.
I guess we flew too close to the sun . . .

I guess the stealth Aircraft were up there too, One of my favorite memories about the benefits of the space program was Space Food Sticks. I liked the chocolate ones.

fabulous photo's and sad
but we will fly again !

We went to the last launch and had a great experience. Never have I been surrounded by such a large crowd ! The launch was inspiring and sad all in all.

Yeah, Too bad Obama has other things he wants to spend our money on, like green energy and social justice.

In Jan. of 2011 President Barack Obama used the former Soviet space program to challenge Americans in his State of the Union address.
Yahoo reported:

“Half a century ago the Soviets beat us into space with the launch of a satellite called Sputnik. We had no idea how we’d beat them to the moon. The science wasn’t there yet. NASA didn’t exist. But after investing in better research and education, we didn’t just surpass the Soviets; we unleashed a wave of innovation that created new industries and millions of new jobs. This is our generation’s Sputnik moment.”

Did you notice he didn’t call it a NASA moment?
He couldn’t.

Last year (2010) Barack Obama cut NASA funding.
Astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke out at the time against the devastating cuts.
The Times Online reported:

The world’s best-known astronaut, who has traditionally avoided controversy and rarely seeks the limelight despite his feat 41 years ago, warned that Mr Obama risks blasting American space superiority on a “long downhill slide to mediocrity”.

The decision to cancel Constellation, the project to send astronauts to the Moon again by 2020 and Mars by 2030, was “devastating”, Mr Armstrong said in a powerful open letter to the President.

“America’s only path to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station will now be subject to an agreement with Russia to purchase space on their Soyuz – at a price of over $50 million [£32 million] per seat with significant increases expected in the near future – until we have the capacity to provide transportation for ourselves,” he said in the letter, which was also signed by Gene Cernan, the last man on the Moon, and Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

Instead of focusing on space, the Obama Administrations NASA plan was to reach out to the Muslim world.
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NASA to 'Reach Out' to Muslim Countries
voices.yahoo.com/nasa-reach-out-muslim-countries-5492229.html

Woody are you joking? We have been involved with NASA since 1994 in one way or another. There's a long story there about funding, and everything else, that I am not at liberty to discuss. I assure you that no one here knows more about the Space program than we do. But it was NOT Obama who killed it, it was Bush and the Republicans.

On this issue, you can cut the made up rhetoric, the space program is a HUGE reason for getting RID of the Republicans in Congress, who are literally the stupidest group of Republicans we've ever seen in US history.

If not for Bush (and Clinton's first 2/3 cut of NASA's budget), we'd already be on our way to terraforming Mars.

It was both Bush and Clinton. You guys have NO IDEA of the incredible things NASA was working on before they laid everyone off.

Wrong Gray. He killed the going back to the moon for no reason. NASA's goal was always deep space.

Obama INCREASED NASA funding; by a little hair, but when you're hanging to the last frayed strings of a rope, one drop of crazy glue helps. Even Buzz Aldrin (the COMMANDER of the moon mission) agrees, and for an old man, he's still sharp as a tack.

www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2010-02-01-nasa-moon-obama_N.htm