Shuttle to launch in 1 1/2 minutes

[karlrschneider]

for those interested

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

1. thanks - watching nasa channel

[CottonBear]

3. Do you have a link to the NASA page? n/t

[karlrschneider]

4. pretty sure it's just nasa.gov

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[karlrschneider]

2. LIFTOFF

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[karlrschneider]

5. SRB separation okay

OMS engines nominal

[Stinky The Clown]

6. I'm still like a little kid with the 'golly gee' face!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. me three, and wishing I was there.

I think that they have kept space pure and virgin. not one lawyer has been in outer space. dammit.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. damn that shuttle looks ratty, no?

that bottom is looks like my bachelor friend's fridge.

[Johonny]

8. nothing makes me more ill

Funny I had a great meeting Friday on the future of launch vehicles and the shuttle and NASA came up not at all. Worst launch vehicle ever. GROUND IT PLEASE!

[NightWatcher]

9. neato!, love the camera on the fuel tank

[lpbk2713]

11. Went out to the back yard to watch.

Couldn't see much due to the cloud cover. Only saw a little bit of a smoke trail between the clouds.

Good luck to all.

[Forkboy]

12. Damn, I missed it.

x(

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. CNNNN will replay it in hiDef. over and over.

but the bottom of that shuttle STILL looks like the skin of a 100 yr old syphilitic hooker with the heartbreak of psoriasis

[Cabcere]

15. I feel like many of NASA's shuttles are

held together with spit & duct tape (figuratively speaking), which scares the hell out of me. :( (Of course, I'm probably overly paranoid/biased because of the Challenger incident, which happened the day I was born - I grew up hearing about it, and a few days after my 17th birthday the Columbia went down.) :( I hope everything will be all right.

[Forkboy]

17. You youngin'!

I remember the day for a couple of reasons.One, the tragedy itself.And two because the day before my friend, who was sick of the endless stories about it, said jokingly, "I wish the damn thing would just blow up!"

When he came in the next day (I hadn't heard...I was probably sleeping off party #4,307) he tossed the paper on my lap with a headline about it and started crying.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. They now use HUBBLE and other high tech toys to check

the good thing is by tomorrow, they will be at the ISS. From there, they can stay for a pretty long time, and if there are repairs to be made, doing it there is better than elsewhere. AND they can always use the life rafts that the USSR built and that russia continues to use cheaply, effectively, and efficiently. Unlike our hybrid bus-truck-passengerlifter and general cluster fuck of a design.

[Forkboy]

16. Nice visual.

:D

[incapsulated]

14. I was a nervous wreck watching that

Until the boosters fell away.

Says a lot, eh?