Step out of the Florida heat into the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at Nasa's launch complex at Cape Canaveral and you enter a cool dark cathedral to spaceflight. It is a structure more than 50 storeys high that has witnessed the greatest and the worst moments of America's ventures into the heavens. It was here that the giant Saturn rockets were pieced together before the Apollo missions to the Moon. So it's no surprise that everything about this place is measured in superlatives: the massive doors, the vast gantries, the impossibly complicated engineering required to get into orbit and beyond. So, May 12, about time imo, lets hope all goes well Full story here.
I wish we would build 5 new ones, instead of letting the ones designed in the 1970's age. Since then we have gone through 3 generations of fighter planes and bombers. I wish they would spend my taxes on cool stuff instead of things designed to kill people.
The 'countdown' may have begun, but the debating over which method to use for repairing tiles in the future Shuttle missions goes on.
