Atlantis - 1985 (2010) 25 yrs.
Columbia - 1981 [ note: Exploded on re-entry - 2003]
Challenger - 1983 [note: Exploded after launch - 1986]
Discovery - 1984 (2009) 25 yrs.
Endeavor - 1992 (2012) 20 yrs.
Enterprise - [note: Test model only. Never launched]
New Shuttle -> Intrepid - (March 2010 to March 2020) 10 yrs.
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2012 to 2020 - 2 Space Shuttles until in 2012, 1 until 2020
2008 - Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor
2009- Atlantis, Endeavor,
2010- Endeavor, Intrepid
2011- Endeavor, Intrepid
2012- Endeavor, Intrepid
2013 to 2020 - Intrepid
I have become
All things unattractive
where once a jaw
Now a roll
Where once a crouch
Now a pouch
Where once a leap
Now a creep
Lonely as a lighthouse keeper
-- Third generation keeper that is --
Perturbed at day and night
fretting against lifestyle I inherit
Witness many shipwrecks
On stones of stand and rocks
Hidden midst panes of light
and ‘midst uncertain sea life
Where once sea froze
Was it safe to walk under
Relying might we
with what we chose
to use boots as boats
Frozen toe and guts
Alone as a wind gust
Nature christened "Bad Temperament"
safe to christen also
Other souls letting go
Bodies mashed 'tween wall
Of water and toe of tower
warnings turn in bearings
to signal friendlies journeys
Friendlier and friendliest peers
Neighbors look into vapors
stare at sea wave bombs
-- Some frightened; some remain calm --
And ask ‘What can we do?’
We built a pier
To tie me froze boat
We sank down below water line
And towed it,
pulling lines in tow
Till we froze and float
Yet yonder, at tide line
Dry patches pavement
Scant puddles left
Like toed nails appointment
Against climates
addled temperament
On piers lay soldiers’ wives
at shore children’s wails
Crying, bereft against torrents
of ignoble swales
Uncertain rigors prevents
Eternal pathos to prevail
though abundant trouble
To die, turn up one’s toes
A chap should be what he can do!
And not as he's told.
- PD / 24 Jan 06
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That is why Mankind is so Special in God the Father's Creation
- Why do you think God gave mankind the gift of choice?
I think it is because omniscience makes for no need, or rather, no requirement for choices to be made. If you want to continue creating as God the Creator does, then there must be some thing, or factor of choice.
That alone is enough to keep watch whether the kettle boils, as I see it. pd/mpw 07.2008
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