STS-120 - SHUTTLE DISCOVERY ATTACHED TO EXTERNAL TANK

[emtpilot132]

Its a damn shame Obama scrubbed the next moon missions.

[rjholling]

Beautiful! The shuttle program has never lived up to its expectations of safety or performance but these vehicles still are absolutely amazing!

[saintrobbie375]

Anyone else remember playing with the Lego Space Shuttle kits as kids?

[olentangy74]

Think of the finesse that the crane operator must have...

[Plane60]

très interessant,c'est vraiment très grand !

[Aerolight1]

the space shuttle looks so great, that i hate it when we had to revert back to apollo-like capsule design spacecraft.

[joachim2464]

do you mean the constellation?

[bleed0range]

It's actually called Area I and Ares V... the mission is called Constellation. I think.

[joachim2464]

ares 1 and ares v is the name of the two rockets. The spacecraft is called constellation. Same as saturn v 5 and apollo. Apollo was not the rocket but the spacecraft.

[SparkPlugRocks]

I think Orion is the orbiter, Altair is the lander, Ares I is the manned rocket (with orion) and Ares V is the unmanned rocket (with altair)

[ThunderHead72]

I'm not looking forward to it either, shuttle is so much better looking!

[overmind2]

ya, but the conventional rockets are better for one man missions and for satellite launches since it cost less to send them up then the shuttel

[threeifbyair]

You guys will like the Constellation just fine when we're beaming back Hi-Def videos from the surface of the Moon.

[WrasslinRyan]

Hell yea

[bleed0range]

That's what I was thinking. Although I don't see why we couldn't use both at the same time and only use the shuttle for specific purposes that Constellation could not do.

[3hours2]

hi from ireland,great to be able,to watch this mission coming together,on here,thanks so much for posting.Myself,and my girlfriend,are going to be watching discovery launch,in oct from the space center.keep up the posting,and thank u

[dancitationjet]

Thank you for posting this. My hat is off to all the people at NASA. We are all proud of you and what you do for US.