Discovery pair prep for first spacewalk
Flight engineer Nicole Stott and mission specialist Danny Olivas will later today step outside the International Space Station for the first spacewalk of space shuttle Discovery's mission STS-128. The pair will later this evening "prepare for the replacement of an empty ammonia tank on the station’s port truss, or backbone, by …
No mention of 'Beer'?
How can you pass up the fact that the Discovery astronauts have been sent out to retrieve some beer? Albeit, the 'beer' in question is a chunk of limestone from the village of Beer, near Lyme Regis, but still. For shame, Register.
Beer icon, because beer has all the money that friends can buy.
Nicole Stott..
"...by releasing its bolts..."
She could release my nuts any day.
Really bright launch
I watched it from my back yard in Orlando, and even that far away the SRB flame was seriously bright. For a very long time after SRB sep, you could see two little bright red dots fall away from the brighter white blob of the SSMEs. Much fun!
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