Author Topic: STS-120 astronauts celebrated for 'terrific mission' (Read 4597 times)

collectSPACE · « **on:** 11/09/2007 07:58 am »

Astronauts celebrated for 'terrific mission'
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-110907a.html

Just a day after landing from their 15-day flight aboard space shuttle Discovery, the crew of STS-120 returned home to Houston on Thursday, where they were met by their NASA coworkers, family, friends, fans and the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

chksix · « **Reply #1 on:** 11/09/2007 09:19 am »

The newsreel on NASA TV is showing a heavily edited version of the event, is there a full video of it somewhere?

charlieb · « **Reply #2 on:** 11/09/2007 01:37 pm »

'W' was really there? You gotta be kidding me....

collectSPACE · « **Reply #3 on:** 11/09/2007 01:54 pm »

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charlieb - 9/11/2007 8:37 AM

'W' was really there? You gotta be kidding me....

He wasn't at the crew return ceremony itself, but as noted in the article:

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The President, in town for other meetings, met the crew at Ellington Field as they were arriving from Florida and he was preparing to board Air Force One for San Antonio. Their meeting was private but Michael Coats, director of Johnson Space Center, shared some of Bush's words while introducing the astronauts to the assembled crowd.

In addition to the NASA photo we published showing Bush with Melroy, NASA has also posted a [different] photo to their STS-120 gallery:
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-120/html/jsc2007e097963.html

And as I had them remaining, I posted additional transcribed comments from the crew that were unable to be used in the article to our message board thread about the homecoming:
http://collectspace.com/ubb/Forum23/HTML/002209.html

chksix · « **Reply #4 on:** 11/09/2007 02:45 pm »

Those crew comments are priceless! I can't believe that NASA TV isn't showing them.

charlieb · « **Reply #5 on:** 11/09/2007 02:59 pm »

I cannot recall 'W' ever visiting JSC - ever.. Even as Gov..

jmjawors · « **Reply #6 on:** 11/09/2007 03:04 pm »

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chksix - 9/11/2007 9:45 AM

Those crew comments are priceless! I can't believe that NASA TV isn't showing them.

They show a very brief and abridged version, but never the whole thing. It's too bad.

collectSPACE · « **Reply #7 on:** 11/09/2007 03:32 pm »

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charlieb - 9/11/2007 9:59 AM

I cannot recall 'W' ever visiting JSC - ever.. Even as Gov..

The President attended a memorial service for the Columbia crew on February 4, 2003 at JSC.
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/Columbia/html/jsc2003e05938.html

Kel · « **Reply #8 on:** 11/09/2007 05:12 pm »

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charlieb - 9/11/2007 9:59 AM

I cannot recall 'W' ever visiting JSC - ever.. Even as Gov..

He didn't show up in Houston to greet the crew, and didn't visit JSC. He flew in to Ellington on Air Force One for a private campaign fundraising event, and basically greeted the crew in passing on the tarmac.