Shuttle Atlantis will launch in 18 minutes (5:04 PM Eastern DT)

[cephalexin]

Channel 213 on Dish Network, NASA live at
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public

[Jack Bone]

1. Thanx for the post & the link!

welcome to DU:pals:

[cephalexin]

2. Hey, thanks! 8 minutes & counting!

:D

[DAGDA56]

3. Thanks for the heads up...I get to grab a drink, and step out into

my backyard and look east. It's 90 degrees, and Florida weather will suck for the next 4 months, but this kind of stuff is fun.

[chknltl]

4. Thank You!

Because of your alert I am watching in High Def and recording the launch. THANK YOU!

[RL3AO]

5. I thought it was Discovery, not Atlantis?

[cephalexin]

10. Drat, I had just been reading something about Atlantis and typed that in. You're right!

:spank: :blush:

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. They are a minute away from launch

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. It may seem routine to many folks

but no launch is routine

[Phoonzang]

8. Did someone just see something fall off the shuttle?

[RL3AO]

11. I thought I might have seen something.

[Phoonzang]

12. It looked black and square...

Coincidentally heat tiles are black and square.

[WritersBlock]

14. Yes.

I saw what looked like two dark squares flying off about the same time, then one more object, which appeared to be a lighter color, about a minute later.

Using the camera shot as orientation, the first two appeared to go from the center bottom of the screen toward the top, and were moving in divergent paths from each other. The 3rd one seemed to have a more right to left path, coming from the right middle part of the view.

[Coexist]

9. we ran outside and caught it!

I love the space program.

[Blue_Tires]

13. aww man i missed it