Our Tax Dollars In Space.

[MasterBlaster]

Mercury:

MESSENGER is currently in orbit.


Earth:

Endeavour STS-134 should hopefully launch on May 16th.
Atlantis STS-135 (the last shuttle launch ever) is scheduled for June 28th.


Mars:

Opportunity is still doing well.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is keeping it real.


Asteroid Belt:

The Dawn spacecraft is still cruising on its way to its visit with Vesta and Ceres.

Saturn:

Cassini is still exploring all there is to learn about the Saturn system.


Pluto:

New Horizons is still cruising to the little dwarf planet. It's currently just past the orbit of Uranus.


Interstellar Space:

Both Voyagers are still working well.

 

[stig]

Much better to send them to space than waste them on waging war for oil.

I love space exploration..

 

[MasterBlaster]

We're not long for this Earth, for sure.

 

[woodworkingboy]

It's intriguing to think of something man made whizzing around those cold dark worlds.

 

[MasterBlaster]

It's unfreakingbelievable, I tellyawhut.

 

[Cobleskill]

I was intrigued with space when the Mercury program started. It was exhilarating, each new piece of the puzzle. Anybody remember Ranger and Surveyor moon shots/probe?

 

[MasterBlaster]

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I grew up with all that.. My grandmother used to go to FL to visit family and watch the lift offs. She would always bring home stuff from an event.
Space exploration has always been very exciting for me Good memories.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I remember the whole family getting up really early in the morning to watch the launches, then when the glow from the rocket disappeared, everyone went back to bed.

 

[Al Smith]

My ex wifes uncle made a small fortune making parts for the space shuttle program .Originally done in Ohio the business is now in Titusville Fla .

 

[flushcut]

I feel pretty small how about you guys?

 

[woodworkingboy]

Not small enough to fit into one of those early capsules, the ones with no window.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'd have been an astronaut in a SECOND.

 

[flushcut]

It must really be something to go into space.

 

[squisher]

I couldn't do it. I'm claustrophobic.

 

[flushcut]

I think for me it would be fear of the unknown or being stranded and having to take that pill nobody talks about.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I don't think I could get past the wearing diapers part. Maybe to be a national hero, though.

 

[flushcut]

Yeah, that might be a little odd.