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Watched the lift-off from the beach. Got off a couple of shots before Discovery climbed into the clouds. Thousands of people at the beach to watch the show. Roads were clogged all over the Space Coast to witness Shuttle Discovery’s final launch into space.
Meanwhile, Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan was on Fox prior to and just after the launch. What did he say? He blasted the Obama Administration for shutting down the program. Said the shuttles were designed and built to fly a hundred times. This mission marks only the 39th flight for Discovery, NASA’s most traveled space shuttle. Said with the end of the manned flight program, we are giving up our position in space travel and technology. “We are disenfranchising ourselves from space.” Said Obama is an a-hole. OK, I made that part up. But I’d bet a dozen black chips and everything already in the pot it’s what he’s thinking…
Discovery is the oldest of NASA’s three surviving space shuttles and the first to be decommissioned this year. Two missions remain, first by Atlantis and then Endeavour, to end the 30-year program. Launch director Mike Leinbach anticipated it would be “tough” to see Discovery take off for the 39th and final time, and even harder when it returns March 7. Read Fox News’ report. But don’t look for the interview with Gene Cernan. It ain’t on the page…
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FYI /when the next election comes around, I have a great suggestion.
I’m a conservative and fortunately, I have a large home and a confortable income. As a result, when my very liberal dependents lose their home, jobs and income and need a place to live, where do they look? My house!! Well, here comes the tough love. If they want to live at my home for free, they have to register to vote and I decide get to decide to who and what to vote on. I hope you can pass this idea on to those that are letting liberals mooch of off of those people who have distributed their wealth to those in their family that don’t understand that they are part of this countries problem.