Space Shuttle: No iPad, but Still Awesome

Just a few hours ago NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery sprang from its launch pad on legs of fire, bound for space--for the very final time at night. It's a mark of the end of an era in space discovery...and it'll sadly go unnoticed by many.

This is Shuttle mission number STS131, and Discovery's 6:21AM departure from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center is essentially a ferrying trip, hauling tons of cargo up to sustain the operations in the International Space Station and delivering a new...