… I can tell you how I really feel about the space shuttle.
LAME. I waited ten years after the Apollo program for a plane? A plane that goes up to low earth orbit, whoop-ti-dozzz – zzz – huh? Wha? Fell asleep there watching your lame-ass plane touch down with the dinky pointless parachutes “helping” with the jet engines. I also somehow remember it riding on top of a 747, and that was also humiliating.
I grew up with Apollo. There’s a space vehicle. Saturn V. Lunar module. Weird moon spider. Splash-down with yes, a parachute, but a parachute with a purpose. A parachute versus GRAVITY.
I think I can best express it with a picture. On the left, the Apollo Saturn V rocket. In the middle, the pathetic shuttle-plane.
And then thankfully, on the right, another American Pride-sized rocket for the next stage in 2017. I don’t see any USA branding on that rocket though. That concerns me.
They start testing un-manned liftoffs in two or three years. Thank God. You young kids, you don’t know what it’s like to see a real rocket launch, a real rocket fall apart into a bug of a module, and a real module splashdown. That’s all back in the plans! They are doing it old style. Eeee!
8 responses to “Now That the Shuttle Program is Almost Over…”
I went to a space shuttle lift off. It was amazingly awesome.
You can see the sound waves ripple across the Indian River inlet and then it hits you – WHOOSH!
It’s not the size, it’s what you do with it.
Becs – Sort of like standing by the speakers at a concert, times a million? Cool. Still Apollo would be the same, but more.Marcia – Yeah. And they trucked equipment up to the space station.
I like space stuff.
Tami – my brother and I can’t get enough, eapecially since the technical father worked at NASA right after the divorce. We got NASA swag. In ’68.
Eeeeee!!!
Tami – Posters, and a record which was a recording of NASA transmissions from Freedom Seven.
(passed out from nerdy jealousy)