I have always been in awe of space launchings. I've watched most of
them, even the bad ones. I am embarrassed to admit that before a couple
of years ago, I thought that that big rocket thing was the shuttle. If
you'll look under the big rocket thing is a tiny airplane that looks
like a nursing puppy. On either side of the puppy are much smaller
rocket-looking things. That tiny airplane is the SHUTTLE!!! As the tiny
Shuttle goes up and up, all of the giant rockets are discarded. Pardon
me for being so simplistic, but it's mind boggling.

I watched a load of launches when I lived in Florida...the night
launches are spectacular!

Can we see this launch on the web anywhere tonight?

Never mind...just watched it...

Nusalor, can you imagine 14 million tons of jet fuel to get that dogie
up there. My comprehension of numbers stops at about 1000. I just
finance the rest! It's very frustrating to know that I don't get
billions! Math people can; I hate them HAHA

I have found living here in the south when a shuttle goes up within days
we have rain. Interesting phenomenon!!!

I have been fascinated with the space program since I was old enough to
watch the launches on TV!

You remember-the old B&W...used to have to get up and walk across the
room to change the channel?

Sushi-the amount of thrust required to escape the earth's gravitational
pull is a mathematical certainty and an aerodynamic nightmare. Yet it is
done again and again.

I understand these concepts, yet when I'm in a DC-11 at 35,000 feet
cruising at 500 MPH I still sit there and wonder... what the hell is
keeping it in the air?!?!?

Sushi...a nursing puppy! Great metaphor.

Nusalor -- me too, about what is holding the darn plane up. Flying still
is magical to me.



Oceans

I was in New Orleans visiting my mother when Man landed on the moon. I
had just gotten back from buying ABBEY ROAD. My mother forbade to play
it until I watched the moon landing. Mind you, I was 23 and married,
butI have no doubt she would have chased me around her house with a belt
if I didn't obey. I've been a fan of the space program ever since.

I once had the wonderful experience of having a causeway pass for a
space shuttle launch. The sound was much louder than I expected. What
a rush!

Sushi, your still a little girl at heart!!

just think of all those greenhouse gases

Aye the worst on. Enormus amounts of water vapor all dumped within
seconds into the atmosphere.

rocket fuel= HYDROGEN+OXYGEN+fire. burn Hydrogen ya get water
Hydrogen when burnt does not cause polution only rain. Hydrogen IS the
safest most inexpensive fuel to produce on the planet.all you need to
produce hydrogen is a solar panel 2 electrodes and a bucket of poluted
water.