STS-135 - the last STS mission

wrxracer1983 · July 19, 2011, 11:23:34 PM

Woops, jacked that up. Here it is for real!

Admin · July 20, 2011, 02:03:48 AM

Straight as an arrow...

/Admin

Augustus · July 20, 2011, 06:56:09 PM

And tomorrow it's all over.

Farewell Atlantis and the Shuttle Programme.
At least I have a little souvenir: The Face in Space certificate for STS-135...
Does somebody know what they a doing now (20.55 MET) ?
Edit: If I am not wrong the orbit stage is now coming to an end.

Moonwalker · July 20, 2011, 07:05:29 PM

Quote from: Augustus on July 20, 2011, 06:56:09 PM
And tomorrow it's all over.

Sadly yes. Only a little less than 15 hours left of this historic final flight. Luckily the ISS stays in orbit at least

Just imagine there wouldn't be the ISS. It would be a really bad day for human space flight.

Quote from: Augustus on July 20, 2011, 06:56:09 PMIf I am not wrong the orbit stage is now coming to an end.

What do you mean by orbit stage?

Augustus · July 20, 2011, 07:22:03 PM

They are going to prepare for deorbit.
My english is not really good, so I'm just watching NASA TV and recording.

Admin · July 20, 2011, 07:59:04 PM

See our post on our Facebook page.

/Admin

Moonwalker · July 20, 2011, 10:15:54 PM

Quote from: Augustus on July 20, 2011, 07:22:03 PM
They are going to prepare for deorbit.
My english is not really good, so I'm just watching NASA TV and recording.

Don't be worried because of your English. It's actually well understandable

I was only confused by the term orbit stage. But you just meant that the earth orbiting stage of the mission is coming to an end. Maybe I was the s****d one

Admin · July 21, 2011, 05:57:03 AM

The very last Space Shuttle mission is coming to an end in 4 hours.

/Admin

Cthulhus · July 21, 2011, 07:50:22 AM

Who know? It's not maybe the last flight ... Keep hoping sorry ! Can't simply imaging it's the end...

Admin · July 21, 2011, 09:06:30 AM

Atantis now leaving the skies of Australia. Landing in 50 minutes.

/Admin

davidsyd · July 21, 2011, 10:09:03 AM

It was raining heavily in Sydney tonight.
I went and stood in the yard anyway and wished her well. The program fueled my imagination from age 12.

Admin · July 21, 2011, 10:22:36 AM

Welcome home Atlantis! We are proud of you and the hundreds of thousands of supporting crews and teams that you represent!

Very sad that tomorrow, about 1,500 people will be fired at NASA and more to follow after the Shutles are mothballed and on display

/Admin

FAAmecanic · July 21, 2011, 03:25:47 PM

Hey all (wow..I have been gone a long time). Im back into ssm2007 with the sad but wonderful launch of the last shuttle mission.

A buddy of mine (that used to work as a trainer in the Shuttle Flight Sim, and now works for a major aerospace company) sent me this link....Very nice!

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=102186381

Moonwalker · July 21, 2011, 07:17:52 PM

Quote from: Admin on July 21, 2011, 10:22:36 AM
Welcome home Atlantis! We are proud of you and the hundreds of thousands of supporting crews and teams that you represent!

Well said.

And from now on, all we see, read, and hear about the Shuttle, is history...

I'm very glad the vision keeps on going at least on this place here.

Quote from: Admin on July 21, 2011, 10:22:36 AMVery sad that tomorrow, about 1,500 people will be fired at NASA and more to follow after the Shutles are mothballed and on display

And isn't it even up to 8,000 all in all within the following month?

I hope some of them will find a nice job somewhere else in the aerospace industries, maybe supporting NASA's new program in the future...

ragle_bagle · July 27, 2011, 03:01:23 PM

Here are my better pictures of launch that I just got a couple days ago, enjoy.....

Sorry for posting a lot of what seems like the same pictute, but I figured that all pictures of the shuttle are amazing!!!