The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral for the last time on Monday, May 16 at 8:56 a.m. EDT. But if you can't make it to Florida, you can watch from where you sit. Wired Science gathered together our favorite live Shuttle webcasts so space geeks everywhere can get in on [...] Among up to 750,000 spectators witnessing afternoon launch: President Barack Obama, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords [MadameNoire.com] Don't Be Trifilin' In Your Tipping Do you know everything there is to know about tipping? (Read) [HipHopWired.com] Rap Music Inspiring Rebels In Fight Against Muammar Qaddafi With fighting in Libya still ongoing, rebel leaders are said to be share: digg facebook twitter (AP) — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left hospitals behind Wednesday for the first time since her tragic shooting nearly four months ago and traveled to NASA territory for the next-to-last space shuttle launch with her husband in command. "Gabby is looking forward to some time away from the rehab center & the chance to see Captain Mark Kelly launch again!" Giffords' staff posted on her Facebook page. Space shuttle Endeavour is due to blast off Friday afternoon with Kelly at the helm. Since she was critically wounded in the Jan. 8 shooting, the Arizona congresswoman has been in hospitals — first in Tucson, Ariz., and then in Houston for rehabilitation. Hundreds of additional journalists have already dropped into Kennedy Space Center, with satellite trucks and temporary trailers filling every available spot at the NASA press site. Giffords' shooting during a meet-and-greet in Tucson and her rehabilitation in Houston — home to Kelly and the rest of NASA's astronaut corps — have overshadowed the details of Endeavour's flight. In recent newspaper and TV reports, her doctors and husband said she speaks slowly, using single words or phrases, and can stand on her own ... Manned space exploration is in a bit of a funk these days, depending on how you look at it. Robots are doing a lot of heavy lifting, and the potential deaths of astronauts make governments wary of much risk-taking. Commercial ventures are starting to ramp up, but their missions aren't quite as awe- inspiring as the former glory of NASA. Here are just some quick links on the future of space exploration. * There's some pessimism about the prospect of humans colonizing the rest of the solar system. That is, if you think a one-way (aka "suicidal") mission to other destinations in the solar system is a "half-full" strategy. [url] * Some folks are pretending to go to Mars and have spent quite a bit of time doing it. Maybe there should be a reality TV show like this, called "Real World: Mars" -- where seven fake astronauts have to live together, trapped in a simulated environment... [url] * The National Security Space Strategy has been published by the Dept of Defense, and it seems that, as space exploration technologies have matured, the goals of space technology development have ... **Gallery:** As it headed toward the first shuttle flight in space in 1981, NASA worked out the kinks with chunky lifting-body designs and paid homage to the TV show "Star Trek" This series of simulations created using NASA's FACET software shows the pattern of air traffic over the continental United States at various times, including Sept 11, 2001. Video courtesy of NASA TV. From the moment the first jolt was felt in Tokyo, there was no doubt -- the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent tragedy was going to play… NASA shuttle returns to Earth to complete final mission, now faces retirement In a frame grab made from NASA TV, space shuttle Discovery leaves the International Space Station for the last time Monday, March 7, 2011. Discovery is due back on Earth on Wednesday. It's ... (03-07) 07:13 PST Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) -- Discovery, the world's most traveled spaceship, left the International Space Station on Monday for the last time, getting a dramatic send-off by the dozen orbiting... (03-03) 07:02 PST Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) -- The 12 orbiting astronauts took care of a little maintenance work aboard the International Space Station on Thursday and gave it a boost before enjoying a well deserved... Feb 24 - Live from NASA TV, space shuttle Discovery blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center on its 39th and final space mission. Rough cut (no reporter narration). An anonymous reader writes "Beet.TV reports that DailyMotion has begun streaming live news from Al Jazeera, BBC, and France 24 among others. They write, 'Paris-based Dailymotion, the world's second biggest online video site, has integrated with London-based live news portal Livestation to provide a number of live streaming television news networks including Al Jezeera, Bloomberg, the BBC, France 24 and sources from other nations as well as from oganizations including the United Nations and NASA.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. Mark Kelly, the husband of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, says he was 'very, very angry' in the days after her shooting Mark Kelly, the husband of US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, revealed for the first time that he believed his wife was dead for 20 minutes after hearing an erroneous television news report as he flew to her bedside. On a private plane flying to Tucson while Giffords was having life-saving surgery after being shot in the head, Kelly said he made the mistake of watching television coverage. "We had the TV on and they reported that she had died. The kids started crying, my mother almost screamed, and I just walked into the bathroom and broke down," he told ABC's Diane Sawyer in an interview screened last night. Kelly remains upbeat about his wife's recovery from the massive injury she suffered: "The progress she has made with this injury has been nothing short of a miracle.... I'm telling [the doctors] she is going to make a 100% recovery and they say that's possible." According to Kelly, Giffords recognises him and has given him a neck massage. But he admitted that, despite his confidence, "at other times I ... With the rumour mill starting to gear up about the iPad 2, we thought we'd ask you, the readers, what would make your perfect tablet?
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Ways to Watch The NexttoLast Shuttle Launch Huge Crowds Expected for Endeavour's Final Bossip Certified Links NASA braces Giffords Obama huge launch crowd DailyDirt Space Exploration Precursors the Taking a Look at America's Air Traffic What Responsibility Do Social Media Users Have During Crisis Discovery Returns Home shuttle heads home retirement leaves space station last time Astronauts relax take in views after 2 spacewalks blasts off one DailyMotion Now Streaming Live News Gabrielle Giffords's husband tells of hearing reports her death | Richard Adams Feature What's your perfect tablet
