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July 26, 2005

Up, up and away

Slighty more than two years after the tragedy of Space Shuttle Columbia, the Shuttle Discovery is now in orbit.

Today's launch follows on the heels of the House passing a bill supporting the President's policy of a return to the Moon and NASA's mission to expand exploration and scientific discovery missions. This is the first NASA specific bill to come out of the House in five years.

While much of this shuttle mission is dedicated to testing new safety measures and procedures, it's larger goal is to return a "spirit of discovery" to America. Once again, our ability to look beyond the problems of life on this terrestrial sphere and reach out for something more rises to the fore.

You can keep track of mission reports for STS-114, and here's the link for NASA TV.

The Shuttle Atlantis is already being prepped for a launch next month. We've got alot of catching up to do.

--Jason

In case you missed it, here's a video of the launch.

I'll put more links to video and images here as I come across them.

Posted by JasonColeman at July 26, 2005 12:53 PM