PSA Shuttle Launch 8:35 Central

[Paratus]

Weather is a maybe
Go watch

 

[Brainonska511]

Hopefully it goes off without a hitch.

 

[jimbob200521]

What are we goin up for?

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: jimbob200521
What are we goin up for?

Continued construction of the ISS.

 

[waggy]

wee! having NASA channel for launches is great. watching the behind the scenes stuff is neat.

 

[Vortex22]

Originally posted by: waggy
wee! having NASA channel for launches is great. watching the behind the scenes stuff is neat.

Seeing it from my back yard is even neater!
Night launches are cool. It's cloudy and windy though so I'm betting on a scrubbed attempt. I hope it goes up though.

 

[Paratus]

I hope so too.

I always feel better after the SRBs seperate.

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: waggy
wee! having NASA channel for launches is great. watching the behind the scenes stuff is neat.

What's really cool is getting to give a 'GO' for flight.

 

[drum]

Originally posted by: Vortex22

Originally posted by: waggy
wee! having NASA channel for launches is great. watching the behind the scenes stuff is neat.

Seeing it from my back yard is even neater!
Night launches are cool. It's cloudy and windy though so I'm betting on a scrubbed attempt. I hope it goes up though.

my grandparents used to live in cape canaveral. definately cool in person

 

[GTaudiophile]

NASA TV Link

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Vortex22

Originally posted by: waggy
wee! having NASA channel for launches is great. watching the behind the scenes stuff is neat.

Seeing it from my back yard is even neater!
Night launches are cool. It's cloudy and windy though so I'm betting on a scrubbed attempt. I hope it goes up though.

oh man i would love to see it live.

Originally posted by: Paratus

Originally posted by: waggy
wee! having NASA channel for launches is great. watching the behind the scenes stuff is neat.

What's really cool is getting to give a 'GO' for flight.

oh i think they just got a go =)

 

[Danman]

I'll be going out in about 10 minutes. Hopefully I have some images to share!!

 

[GTaudiophile]

I have seen two launches live, one at night and one during the day.

TV can never do it justice. The brilliance of the fire, the sound, the shaking of the ground!

 

[waggy]

ahh boo. a violation. boo

 

[Kalvin00]

the shaking of the ground!

better than an NHRA top fuel dragster?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Weather violation?

 

[Vortex22]

Yeah the cloud ceiling over the launch area is too low. I think they said it will count down to 5 minutes and hold for a bit to see if it clears.

 

[everman]

It looks amazing at night, even just sitting there on the launch pad.

 

[drum]

wow it does look windy

 

[waggy]

hehe my daughter is joining me. she has been talking about space and the space ships all week (they were talking about in school)

 

[everman]

Link for larger picture than the browser: http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx

 

[waggy]

ahhh holding. heh. comon

but yeah it does look windy

ohh 4 min window? i don't think they are going to make it.

 

[Paratus]

The mission is to re-wire the ISS. So at some point almost every piece of equipment will be turned off.

 

[drum]

there is no way this launches

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: drum
there is no way this launches

I agree.