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VIDEO: Space Shuttle - Mission to the future 1981

Rob Coppinger
 on February 23, 2010 2:58 PM | | Comments (1)
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Narrated by one James Doohan (where's the "Scots" accent?!) this 27min 22s is dated 1981 and promotes the Space Shuttle, in particular the orbiter Columbia, as a new epoch in exploration. Perhaps prophetically the film talks of the destiny of nations and says "time and the loss of will runs [nations] down". Loss of will, something for Congress think about maybe (and this bloggers own government)

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Anonymous

The future of exploration eh. Boy were they wrong. Sort of like how the 1960's generation thought Saturn V's would soon be putting humans on Mars & building giant toroid space stations.

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