Space shuttle launch soon (1 Viewer)

[gordo]

its in 4 hours and 15 mins as of now

i'll be getting up to watch it and then promptly fall unconscious again

 

[shortygb]

is it going to be broadcast on tv?

 

[gordo]

u can watch it live at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?skipIntro=1

atm they are putting on their space suits

its gripping

 

[withoutaface]

Yeah, 5.30 on channel 7.

 

[Generator]

5.30? Bugger that. I'm waking up at 8 for AM (ABC current affairs), and then I'm going back to sleep till 10.

 

[sunjet]

NASA newbie here, but what's the mission for, i know it's 'return to flight', but they are just flying to a space station what's big about that?

 

[Rafy]

The fact that its return to flight.


On the mission, its basically to Ressuply the ISS and secondly, to test their new shuttle repair kit.

 

[Rafy]

Mission has been scrubbed for today.

There is an issue with a low fuel sensor

 

[zahid]

BLAH it got cancelled ----------------- I stayed up for no reason

 

[gordo]

great
i got up, walk in, turn on the tv, and see them draining the fuel out of the boosters cause of a faulty fuel sensor

i can sort of empathise with the fact that so much can go wrong,
i hope it launches soon though, they hav a window period of 5 minutes a day till the end of july then they have to wait till after 9th september, in order to launch it so iss is in the right trajectory

 

[HotShot]

i hope they dont too much 'safety' stuf into it such that it cant take off. well personally i they are not doing much in space apart form the building the international space station, which is good idea but serves little purpose.

 

[zahid]

Seriously though guys...it would be kind of funny if it blew up on orbit.

 

[withoutaface]

Seriously though guys...it would be kind of funny if it blew up on orbit.

Besides, the chances of it blowing up in orbit are minimal because the times when it is submitted to the most stress is during launch and re-entry.

 

[zahid]

Besides, the chances of it blowing up in orbit are minimal because the times when it is submitted to the most stress is during launch and re-entry.

Your probably right, But it would be funny in the sense that....the govt poured so much $$$ into the project...it would be nice to see it *KABLAM*
keeping in mind the *ever Improving* welfare system of America.

 

[iamsickofyear12]

They aren't even doing anything important. When they do I will be interested. Until then I don't care.

 

[withoutaface]

Your probably right, But it would be funny in the sense that....the govt poured so much $$$ into the project...it would be nice to see it *KABLAM*
keeping in mind the *ever Improving* welfare system of America.

The government only poured a third as much $$$ in the project that they should have.

 

[zahid]

The government only poured a third as much $$$ in the project that they should have.

but thats still a lot of $$$.

 

[Rafy]

less than an hour to launch. It will be shown on ABC and i believe the other channels

All Discovery crew members now are on board and the space shuttle's hatch is closed. Officials say all systems look good for launch at 10:39 a.m. ET. A fuel sensor problem that scrubbed the liftoff nearly two weeks ago did not recur today.

 

[transcendent]

$0.05 it doesn't launch

 

[Rafy]

It being shown on 9 now, ABC will cover it in a few mins.

Launch in less than 20 minutes