A Tale of Two Shuttles
Apr. 20th, 2009 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynNeat images on floridatoday.com of space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour seen together as they're both on their respective launch pads.
A little sad, too: this sight was supposed to be common under the original shuttle proposal of 50 launches a year, as outlined in chapter 1 of the Columbia accident report. Now they have to do it because NASA needs a backup ready to go if the first shuttle gets too damaged during launch to reenter the atmosphere.
A little sad, too: this sight was supposed to be common under the original shuttle proposal of 50 launches a year, as outlined in chapter 1 of the Columbia accident report. Now they have to do it because NASA needs a backup ready to go if the first shuttle gets too damaged during launch to reenter the atmosphere.
