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jmagar on July 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA's Successful Quantifying of Comedy Timing (By...

I took my two boys to a launch because I knew the end was near. STS-125 the first and last time two shuttles were prepped to launch at the same time: Hubble makes the ISS unreachable if a problem occurs. (The second shuttle was the rescue plan since they couldn't get to the reentry vehicle parked at the ISS.)

Yes, I cried like a little girl.

Good times.

drgath on July 22, 2011 [–]

TIL about STS-400. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-400

Seeing the Shuttles next to one another is pretty awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space_shuttles_Atlantis_%2...

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