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Leaping Above The Sky One Last Time

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 8, 2011
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Leaping Above The Sky One Last Time
“After a heart-stopping pause at T-31 seconds, Space Shuttle Atlantis left Earth and leapt above the sky this morning. This is the last time a space shuttle will ever do this – and everyone in attendance at the launch site knew it.
Up until a short time before launch gloomy weather forecasts had left a sense of doubt among all who gathered here at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Half an hour or so before the scheduled launch time the weather suddenly started to improve – and with it, the crowd’s expectations.
I am not going to write about all the geeky stuff. Everyone else is doing that.”

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.