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Posted: 5/31/2008 10:53:41 AM EDT
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NASA TV T- ~2 hours, 12 minutes Launch is at 4:02 Central Does anyone have a link to streaming high-definition video? |
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On NASA TV right now: blond babe in the white room - looks like she's part of the closeout crew
ETA: now she's handling a long, um... "probe" I think they called it |
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We're in the T- 20 minutes hold now
Karen Nyberg, the third crewmember from the right, is a looker too. |
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I am waiting for the launch myself. Every launch is job security for me. We are hoping at work that the program is extended until the Ares and Orion start.
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Flight: "Go for launch Discovery"
CDR: "Standby for the greatest show on Earth" |
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When a future civilization looks back upon us like we look at the Greeks, they will recognize our Space programs as our most important accomplishment.
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31 seconds, going for auto-sequence start
let's keep our fingers crossed |
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At risk of sounding like I just walked in from DU... Imagine what our space program would be like if we didn't have to worry about people running planes into skyscrapers. Imagine what our space program would like if we could spend the entire DoD budget on getting off this rock and finding another one.
~Dg84 |
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Imagine what our space program would be like if we didn't spend 60% of the US budget on welfare programs. |
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The space program could double if we just cut out the graft and waste in the Welfare system. |
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I would kill to watch a launch in person. I have only seen the boosters tested in person.
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Beautiful stuff. Too damned cloudy here to see it. Caught it on the live feed, tho. |
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I don't care who you are.
That shit is AWSOME!!!!!!! 11000 mph 8 mins after launch. |
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always see debris but that one hit the belly. Bet they look at that real close
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It went from 100k feet to 200k feet in like 30 seconds. Insane.
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I saw that one too |
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Gives me chills every time I watch one of these. I hope to see one in person before they cancel the program. |
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Lived in FL for 15 years and never went to see one although we saw it from school and from home. The night launch was cool to see from the house
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I've always wanted to see one, but never bothered to take a day off when they were during the week. Just my luck it'd be put off due to weather or some shit. I of course had to be busy this weekend. |
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I was going to, but forgot. |
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You must be doing better than we are slightly north. I stepped out a couple minutes prior, and there were nothing but a bunch of useless, impotent thunderheads that direction, anyway. |
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Anyone else still waiting on a certain "oil-producing" region to pull off something like a moon landing or space launch.
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took the kids out into the front yard and saw it perfectly.
if your in central fla, and have a 2m ham, i was able to hear nasa on 147.270 this is about the tenth time i have seen it from my house. guess i'm just lucky. |
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