Space Shuttle Documentary (Narrated by William Shatner) Part 1/6

[blakscal]

whats with the editing, too many dissolves.



[douvil]

Dark Knight Soundtrack...Good  choice

[geomodelrailroader]

the Shuttle is an amazing machine my uncles and my grandpa worked on the shuttle they worked for ATK Thiokol the company who built the boosters I can't believe it is going to retire.

[ludocrat]

Funny, even though I'm British, I suppose this is as much a symbol of my generation as any American of the same age (although I had just come back from the US, where my family had lived for some years, when the shuttle was unveiled). I was nearly seven years old when my teacher showed the test flight of the Enterprise on a big old TV set in school. Now it's made its last voyage I feel an odd, disconcerting sense of loss. And I look to America again wondering "what's next?"

[kayper54]

@ludocrat I feel the same way: that vague sense of slight anxiety, wondering if there IS a "next." I hope there is a next, but I'm not sure it will be in my lifetime; not in the US anyway. Other countries, though, aren't giving up. I really am indifferent as to which nation(s) will aim for that next step, just so long as humans beings somewhere are being sent to explore ever further from "home."