[OT ATLANTIS last take off

[ElektroQuark]

You can see it here:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

LIVE from NASA.

The last flight of the Space Shuttle saga. The End of an era.

[Kiriakos-GR]

Yes they do not need it any more, they had so many spying birds on the orbit,
that soon enough they will start crashing by them self's.  ( No room for more )

[PeterG]

Just some interesting live stats of the Space Station Orbit.
http://www.n2yo.com/

Regards

[ElektroQuark]

Interesting, thank you.

I would thought that this topic would have many post in a "tech" message board like this, but it is not the case. I'm surprised.

[deephaven]

Just some interesting live stats of the Space Station Orbit.
http://www.n2yo.com/

Regards

What a brilliant website - thanks!

[westfw]

I was going to comment on how depressing it was for the US to have lost its manned space capability for the "1st time since I was a child", but it looks like there was a pretty big gap in between the last Saturn Launch (skylab, 1974) and the 1st shuttle launches (1981) too.

AFAIK, most of the spy satellites go up on non-shuttle boosters.