Stilgherrian » space shuttle http://stilgherrian.com All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:28:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en © stil@stilgherrian.com () stil@stilgherrian.com() 1440 Live Internet broadcasts from Stilgherrian. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. stil@stilgherrian.com No no http://stilgherrian.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sla_144w.jpg Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com 144 144 Shuttle a pile of crap http://stilgherrian.com/space/shuttle_pile_of_crap/ http://stilgherrian.com/space/shuttle_pile_of_crap/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:18:27 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/notes/shuttle_pile_of_crap/ Photograph of Space Shuttle launch

The Space Shuttle really is a pile of crap, isn’t it. A book I had back in the 1970s enthused that there’d be a flight every week. The Shuttle would be regular trucking service to orbit. Reality: The first Shuttle flight for 2007 was only the other day, and I hardly need to mention the disasters. Still, offer me a ticket and I’ll fly tomorrow. Though part of me suspects the sturdy Soyuz would be safer.

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]]> http://stilgherrian.com/space/shuttle_pile_of_crap/feed/ Shuttle Atlantis live on NASA TV http://stilgherrian.com/internet/shuttle_atlantis_live/ http://stilgherrian.com/internet/shuttle_atlantis_live/#comments Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:52:45 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/internet/shuttle_atlantis_live/ You can watch the hot space action from STS-115 at www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/. Of course as I write this the astronauts are asleep for the next five hours, but they do have a camera pointing at the Earth, which is worth a look. And the commentator is doing such a sterling job she’d be at home on ABC Radio during a rained-out cricket match.

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