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Sunday, September 10, 2006

Atlantis launch

NASA labels Atlantis launch 'flawless'.:

"After two weeks of delays, Atlantis and its six-member crew launched from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral this morning Australian time."

It's always nerve wracking this on again off again , will it , won't it...oh, for Pete's sake...hoorah!!! At last and what an impressive sight. They still forget to take all the packaging off before they launch it because more bits have fallen off. I wish they'd get that bit right. Unpack it properly before you put it on the launchpad, guys! This is exciting because they are taking up solar panels for the space station and that will help the ISS produce more power form sunlight and provide a quarter of the space station's power. So how does the ISS supply its own power now because they can't just plug into the nearest electricity grid?

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