Apologies if there's a discussion of this already, didn't see one; also there's only 30 minutes till it lands, hence my abuse of the NF tag.

Godspeed Atlantis. Let's see ya on the ground safely in about a half hour.

*crickets*

"I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you"

Good luck guys, that shuttle boom is no joke, damn near made me duck and cover when I heard it in Pasadena.

Hope they land safely.

I really need to keep that screencap from CNN handy for these kinds of threads.

Vman: Good luck guys, that shuttle boom is no joke, damn near made me duck and cover when I heard it in Pasadena.


No shiat. I heard it way, way down here in Boca Raton when it landed in Cape Canaveral once. F*cking thing woke me out of my sleep, nobody had any idea what it was until the news broadcast the following evening.

Castle doctrine! Those god-hatin' scientists were coming right for us!

Now over Central America.

Yay for space travel!

Why do we discuss this? At this point, it's landing whether they want it to or not.

Please, I have other things to do today, so don't land in east texas.

DAMN YOU SOUND BARRIER!!!

*shakes fist at sky God*

America: F*CK YEAH!

/Best of luck and no, that boom is a hell of a lot more startling than a jet's boom.

stay on target....

/Best of luck and no yeah, that boom is a hell of a lot more startling than a jet's boom.

FTFM

Im about 20 miles north of Ft Myers and its Cloudy here!!

No luck in me seeing the shuttle fly by

nasa tv (new window)

How many times the speed of light is that?

Somebody explain to the guys shooting down that satellite... what the satellite looks like, and how much it doesn't look like a shuttle.

gruffgoat: nasa tv (new window)

*confused dog*

Anyone else just getting a red x?

omg

i can't believe this is happening again

Bob Down: Somebody explain to the guys shooting down that satellite... what the satellite looks like, and how much it doesn't look like a shuttle.


What for? I'm sure the shuttle pilots will figure out a way to crash on their own.


/Need Another Seven Astronauts
//or is it Six?

Captain Zapp Brannigan: Then what did we just blow up?
Kif Kroker: The Hubble Telescope.

Damn, and the inflight movie isn't even hafway through.
I hate it when that happens.

under 200 miles to go

Gonna go outside and watch it.

Is it traveling 25x the speed of light?

We have a visual!

"Don't shoot back"

What's that supposed to mean?

cubsfan07:

so original. welcome to 1986.

Come back safely, Atlantis.

I'll forever admire the testicular fortitude it takes to land that thing on a regular runway when coming in from frickin space.

70 miles to go, 14 miles high

Jubeebee: Come back safely, Atlantis.

I'll forever admire the testicular fortitude it takes to land that thing on a regular runway when coming in from frickin space.

And this with no power!

Boom.

That shiat better not land on my lawn!

somebody get that cat out of here

watching the live feed on MSNBC, what kind of camera/lens set up is that, at a range of 14 miles up 70 miles from touchdown?

BOOM BOOM!!!

I just heard the twin sonic boom on NASA TV.

sky rockets in flight!

/sorry

Sonic BOOM... x2

that double sonic boom is amazing

Just heard gun fire! Hope they're not shooting!

Shook my house and freaked my dog out. A+++++

runway in sight.

okay, going through the cloud bank like that, runway coing into view...that was farking cool

I just heard it in Orlando about 1 minute ago.