Space Shuttle ready for launch!!

[Cpt. Stewker]

STS-116 is going to be launching tonight at 9:35 pm eastern time. They'll be spending 12 days in orbit, and will be spending the majority of that at the ISS.

Heres a live video feed of the launch preperations and hopefully launch (if the weather holds out) in Florida, courtesy of Nasa TV.

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplayli...segment=149773

I live on the Florida coast only a lil ways north of the cape so I'm going to be watching it in person! Damn the space program is cool.... Too bad it is under funded horribly though...

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Cpt. Stewker

STS-116 is going to be launching tonight at 9:35 pm eastern time. They'll be spending 12 days in orbit, and will be spending the majority of that at the ISS.

Heres a live video feed of the launch preperations and hopefully launch (if the weather holds out) in Florida, courtesy of Nasa TV.

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplayli...segment=149773

I live on the Florida coast only a lil ways north of the cape so I'm going to be watching it in person! Damn the space program is cool.... Too bad it is under funded horribly though...

Seems my copy of winamp is screwing up on this link. Must reinstall it.

-S

[Polak]

Sweden is following this launch closely since the first Swede in history will be launched into space.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Polak

Sweden is following this launch closely since the first Swede in history will be launched into space.

Its about time then that they get someone up there then!

[Polak]

I agree, the Swedish space program is actually very large, but to get a man up there has never been a big priority.

[Cpt. Stewker]

Update: It's now showing them getting into the shuttle and being helped strapped in. The running commentary on the feed is really cool and has a lot of neat info on what's going on. Talking about the astronauts, and what they are doing and etc.

[fredbass]

This is where I go to see the live feed and anything else going on with Nasa.

http://www.nasa.gov/

[Cpt. Stewker]

Originally Posted by fredbass

This is where I go to see the live feed and anything else going on with Nasa.

http://www.nasa.gov/

That's where I got the link to that feed i posted

[fredbass]

Originally Posted by Cpt. Stewker

That's where I got the link to that feed i posted

Well now they know for sure.

Edit: Looks like they've moved the launch time up. It's now 47 minutes until liftoff.

[Cpt. Stewker]

Originally Posted by fredbass

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Edit: Looks like they've moved the launch time up. It's now 47 minutes until liftoff.

Man, good thing I check this forum so often since i got SH3. I hadn't planned on going outside till 9:15 or so.
Thanks for the heads up.

[TteFAboB]

T minus 20 mins.

This is really fun, thanks alot for the link.

[fredbass]

There will be a scheduled 45 min hold in about a minute.

[TteFAboB]

Damn weather. The clouds are going to ruin the show. Or the comentator is simply trying to grab my attention and keep me anxious.

[Cpt. Stewker]

Arghhh!!! Nooo!!!

They scrubbed the lauch due to weather. Thick cloud cover was the culprit. Aborted at T-minus 00:05:00!!

They are now discussing a 24/48/longer turn around (when they can launch next). Going to largely depend on the weather forcast. Unfortunatly it won't be a nigt launch probably, they are rather rare all together and I had never seen one with my own eyes

EDIT: well at least I got out and breathed some fresh air and got to talk to a lot of nasa buffs and general people that were out on the beach waiting to watch the shuttle.

[Cpt. Stewker]

Nasa's next launch attempt is going to be tomorrow night at 8:47pm ET. I'll try and take some pictues and post it for you guys.

Here's a quote from my MySpace blog that I did about what it's like to watch a launch in person:

The amazing thing is though is just how huge of an event these launches are. For example I watched the launch they had in September from my street in Daytona, 50+ miles away from Cape Canaveral, and I can hear it, HEAR IT, when it launches, it's a low rumble that slowly fills the air. You can feel it in the ground too, a tremor in the earth. Hows that for amazing? The sight of it is pretty cool too, too just watch these rocket, with a vast plume of smoke and fire go up into the sky and just... fade away... as it curves around the earth.