After a delay caused by mechanical difficulties, space shuttle Endeavour finally blasted off for its final mission (STS-134) today.

The craft launched at 8:56 a.m. ET from Launch Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center.

This is the 25th and final liftoff for Endeavour, and the second-to-last shuttle launch ever.

In June, Space Shuttle Atlantis is set to take off for STS-135, the final shuttle mission.

Well, I am trying to answer to the biggest question here. It might not be the perfect answer for everyone or it might not be right at all, but the beauty of it is, who can say otherwise?

This is the question that has occupied my mind for the longest time.
There have been questions which seem to be more important at that instant but the relevance of the question dies out with time. But its not the case with this question.
Even people who abandon everything their life offers them and choose isolation just to figure out the answer to this question, fail.

But is the answer really required?
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We engineers have to stay long hours figuring out stuff and creating code. Unlike olden days when we used to go and refer books in the library, we are now accustomed to push button life , or should I say ‘Google That’ life.

I hope this material will not only open your eyes for good, but the simple suggetions will stay with you in your sub-conscious for a long time.

Have a healthy time ahead.

Nova, the compute engine and fabric controller that supports Nebula, was open sourced by NASA last year, and it’s now part of the OpenStack build-your-own cloud open source project cofounded by NASA and Rackspace.

Nova is written in C, C++, and Python.
The Nova cloud fabric controller is built to mimic Amazon’s EC2 and S3 APIs. Most of the code is written in Python, using the Tornado and Twisted frameworks.

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