Space Shuttle in NYC.

[Arnoud]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Nice photos.

Back in the early days of the Shuttle program it landed here in the Oklahoma City area at Tinker AFB. Thousands of people wasted a lot of film shooting horrible pictures with crappy cameras. They would bring them to our photolab and want a "big" print like a 8x10 or even 16 x20. We would tell them it is just going to be a big blurry blob. We had a few shots done by a professional with the proper equipment. We would just pull out one of the stock prints and most of the customers bought one of those because it was so much better.

The photographer got a piece of each sale and we sold a lot of prints and the customer got a nice print cheaper than us printing their crappy image.

It is just amazing how much photography has changed in the last 30 years.

I lived in Midwest City at the time and seeing it fly over our appartement complex(Woodside)was quite something.Dad was in the Dutch airforce and was trained at Tinker for the E3A programme and whilst being a sergeant his outfit looked(from a distance)a lot like a much higher ranked person-he got us very close to the 747/shuttle combo.
It is indeed very sad they stopped the program,quite an archievement,quite a machine..

[Porsche-O-Phile]

The mars program was canceled (Constellation) or did you not get that memo.

Another casualty of financial mismanagement. Very sad.

[RWebb]

don't confuse one program with the entire thing

[sammyg2]

I wonder how much of my money they wasted on that?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

You think the federal government just mismanaged the Constellation project? What color is the sky on your planet?

If you're referring to the 2010 speech by our present idiot-in-chief who subsequently ended the US manned space flight program and slashed NASA funding (while raising staff & budgets for the IRS, EBT cards, the oh-so-successful Departments of Education and Energy, HUD, the DOJ - since Holder is doing SUCH a great job never mind that little "Fast & Furious" thing, etc.) then please enlighten us as to how exactly our broke-ass country with no jobs is going to implement that vision? Oh yeah that's right, he was just pulling it out of his ass in a feeble attempt to mimic JFK, only with no real thoughts about whether we could or how to pull it off.

Another. Big. Obama. Fail.

[RWebb]

go BARF on PARF

[Schumi]

What the %#*$ guys? Really?