Post by grrraaahhh on Jul 8, 2011 7:18:21 GMT -9
Atlantis launches successfully
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — For the last time, the engines of a space shuttle roared, the ground rumbled, and the shuttle Atlantis rose off the launching pad and quickly disappeared into the gray, overcast sky.
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/science/space/09shuttle.html
CAPE CANAVERAL – The clouds haunting Kennedy Space Center parted late Friday morning, and NASA sent its last space shuttle skyward – with a magnificent roar that put Atlantis and its four astronauts into space and the agency's manned space flight program closer to an end.
With the apparently flawless 11:29 a.m. blastoff, Atlantis carried supplies for the International Space Station, plus the memories of glory and tragedy for a 30-year program in a spaceship admirers call "the incredible machine."
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/os-space-shuttle-atlantis-launch-20110707,0,6724979.story
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — For the last time, the engines of a space shuttle roared, the ground rumbled, and the shuttle Atlantis rose off the launching pad and quickly disappeared into the gray, overcast sky.
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/science/space/09shuttle.html
CAPE CANAVERAL – The clouds haunting Kennedy Space Center parted late Friday morning, and NASA sent its last space shuttle skyward – with a magnificent roar that put Atlantis and its four astronauts into space and the agency's manned space flight program closer to an end.
With the apparently flawless 11:29 a.m. blastoff, Atlantis carried supplies for the International Space Station, plus the memories of glory and tragedy for a 30-year program in a spaceship admirers call "the incredible machine."
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/os-space-shuttle-atlantis-launch-20110707,0,6724979.story
