Re: Discovery is go for throttle up!
I was there for the first one, and I'll try my darndest to be there for the last. I don't think that I'm up to spending the night in a tree like the first time.....I think my brother is going to have a major depression over this. He's worked his whole career on the shuttle program and gets to shut out the lights. Say goodnight, Gracie.
And RIP Astronauts:
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Edward H. White, II
Roger B. Chaffee
January 27, 1967
Francis "****" Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Judith A. Resnik
Ellison S. Onizuka
Ronald E. McNair
Gregory B. Jarvis
S. Christa McAuliffe
Clifton C. Williams, Jr.
January 28, 1986
Rick D. Husband
William C. McCool
Michael P. Anderson
Michael J. Adams
Kalpana Chawla
David M. Brown
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon
February, 1, 2003
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I?ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, ? and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov?ring there,
I?ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless falls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I?ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor eer eagle flew ?
And, while with silent lifting mind I?ve trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
