July 11, 2005 at 3:00 AM. Watching the Mason Fire Glow. 

July 11, 2005. Wetmore, Colorado. Watching the Mason Fire at 3 AM. Enhanced picture. 

July 11, 2005. Wetmore, Colorado. The Mason Fire. 

July 11, 2005. Wetmore, Colorado. This sky crain helicopter can deliver a drop of water equivalent to 2000 gallons per minute.  

July 11, 2005. Wetmore, Colorado. Refugees from the Mason Fire.  

July 11, 2005. Wetmore, Colorado. Picture taken after the evacuation of the photographer. 

July 10, 2005. Journalists braving "Dennis" at Panama City, Florida. 

July 10, 2005. The Gulf of Mexico and "Dennis" at Okaloosa Island near Destin, Florida.  

July 10, 2005. The security barrier at A Ram, Jerusalem. 

July 10, Jerusalem Arabs have access across the barrier at A Ram. They just don't like being controlled to prevent violence. The complainers are more than likely Hamas who sees and escalation of violence and not a ceasation of it.  

"March of the Penguins" Go see the movie, young and old alike. 

The Prospective Designs of our future space program. Let's do it right this time.  

I think we are just asking for the same trouble we have with the current shuttle design A ship hanging on the side of very disasterous fuel. It is repeating the same mistake regardless the reassurance.  

A More Cost Effective Design - One Crew launch = MULTIPLE Cargo launches . Far more efficient besides safe.

This is a much better design to carry crews into orbit. It places the crew at the tip of the rocket AWAY from any explosion with a much better chance of survival if it is designed to protect the astronauts regardless of what happens to the booster rocket. The orbiter could be designed to 'link' to a cargo ship lauched separately. I don't see one vechicle doing every job that is needed in space. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A ' ONE FITS ALL' for every task. The crews have a right to have their own SAFE launch vehicle. I like this design for breaking Earth's gravity for the crews alone much more than any other.

The Cargo Launch Vehicle. Unmanned. More fuel for heavier launches.

This design is still too dangerous for crews. However, it is an excellant design for cargo carriers to be put into orbit to be met by crews that launch separately.

The Flight of "Columbia"  

Eileen Collins, the Shuttle Discovery's pilot. She has some special maneuvers planned for Discovery after breaking Earth's gravity, but, will she see the shuttle safely that far ? 

July 10, 2005 The Shuttle Discovery Crew. 

July 10, 2005. A return to Reagonomics the Shuttle Discovery was exposed to the outer bands of "Dennis." Will it be effected? Was it damaged? There were tornado warnings at the lauch site. Cutting corners should never be the way our space program is run. There was already one shuttle and crew destroyed under this president. Will there be another? The odds of safe flight are getting less.  

Will "Discovery" be another "Challenger" or "Columbia" See it for youself. Take lots of pictures. Keep the government honest, if that's possible.

Discovery. The roads leading to viewing.