Posted Jun 3, 2009, 6:09 AM
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Space shuttle makes surprise stop in San Antonio
Neat. Cool story too. I had a feeling it would stop in San Antonio. I knew about the El Paso stop. It's only landed once before at Bergstrom here in Austin years ago back when it was still an air force base. Besides seeing the vapor trails of the orbiter in the upper atmosphere and seeing it in orbit, I've never seen it in person. These people were lucky, the last time a shuttle stopped in San Antonio was in 1996, and the shuttles are slated to be decommissioned sometime next year.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...n_Antonio.html
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Space shuttle makes surprise stop in San Antonio[
When Sharon Mooney heard a television news flash about the space shuttle Atlantis landing at Lackland AFB on Tuesday morning, she scooped up her 7-year old daughter and dashed out the door.
She drove to the flight line near U.S. 90 West, joining a dozen vehicles winding along the curved two-lane road. Motorists peered through binoculars, cell phones and digital cameras to catch the shuttle piggybacked atop a modified Boeing 747 in the distance.
“This is an opportunity for her to see a part of our history,” said Mooney, 49, as her daughter, Brieonne Mooney-Bird, scooted across the hood of their car. “This is what America is about. We get to see what our taxes are paying for.”
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There was a time when San Antonio was a regular pit stop for space shuttles. Kelly AFB served as a fueling station for Atlantis, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour and Enterprise and their transport planes from 1979 to 1996. Before Tuesday, Endeavour was the last shuttle to stop in San Antonio, on July 30, 1996.
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