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SSJ4 Gogitta
1st July 2006, 19:13
Discovery to launch at 3:49 PM EDT if all goes well. Anyone watching on CNN or NASA TV?

Link to streaming NASA TV can be found here (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html) at the right, under "countdown".
SSJ4 Gogitta
1st July 2006, 19:39
Weather forcast is at a No-GO state. Launch window ends at 3:53:02 Eastern Time. Launch does not look good. Looks like it'll be tomorrow.


Launch scrubbed. Next launch window is July 2nd at 3:26 PM ET.
webthing
1st July 2006, 19:42
Yes, scub for today.
MidnightViper88
1st July 2006, 19:43
What?! Damn! >_<

I'm watching the coverage on FNC, and that's just totally anti-climatic...It's like waiting all day to watch history, and then a little thunderstorm just blots it all out like that...

Meh...I ain't doing anything Sunday either anyway... :D
MidnightViper88
4th July 2006, 03:10
NASA: 4th of July launch a go -- Dispite crack (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/03/D8IKT4V00.html)

If the launch is a safe success, then the timing couldn't be more fitting... :P
ElChevelle
4th July 2006, 10:50
SWEET!

T minus 7 hours and some minutes:up:
SSJ4 Gogitta
4th July 2006, 18:11
T minute 9 minutes until launch. All is GO.
SSJ4 Gogitta
4th July 2006, 18:37
One minute to go!

And we have a successful launch of Discovery. Happy 4th of July, folks.
MidnightViper88
4th July 2006, 18:54
Now that's a rocket show!

God speed :D
SSJ4 Gogitta
4th July 2006, 19:09
One that I think we're glad that didn't end with a bang.
ElChevelle
4th July 2006, 19:14
Freakin' awesome!
I've watched several liftoffs but that one was :up:
MidnightViper88
4th July 2006, 19:21
I was watching it on FNC, and they had a bar at the bottom of the screen that measured the shuttle's speed; Final displayed speed before disengagement of the external fuel tank was roughly ~26,000 FPS (~17,700 MPH)...

That was really interesting for me to see the speed climb up in real time, since I never knew how fast a space shuttle could travel during launch...That's some serious ass-hauling! :eek:
SSJ4 Gogitta
4th July 2006, 19:58
Yea, it had about 8 million pounds of thrust under its ass. 7 brave people riding atop a big-assed controlled explosion, enduring several G-forces, reaching a final altitude of more than 219 miles above the Earth, at a breakneck speed of 5 miles per second.

At 2:41 PM EDT, the shuttle was going at about 4,000 mph. Four minutes later: 14,000 mph.
ElChevelle
4th July 2006, 20:13
CNN had full telemetry too.
The acceleration was what got me, straight up against gravity.

I was back and forth between CNN and Fox but Fox blows with their bars taking up half the screen. CNN dropped it for the launch.
SSJ4 Gogitta
4th July 2006, 20:30
Just be glad that gravity is an extremely weak force. Seriouslly, take a plain old fridge magnet, and stick some paperclips on it. That tiny assed magnet is holding those paperclips up against the gravitation tug of the WHOLE EARTH.
papadoc
4th July 2006, 21:30
I watched it on HDNet in HD.
No banners, no talking, no bullshit you get from the news networks.
Just the audio from mission control to the shuttle and awsome video.
MidnightViper88
4th July 2006, 23:58
Originally posted by papadoc
I watched it on HDNet in HD.
No banners, no talking, no bullshit you get from the news networks.
Just the audio from mission control to the shuttle and awsome video.

Fox did tune out and put NASA on audio after the 3 or 2 minute mark during the countdown, also using NASA video long before the launch...

I watched a bit of it on CSPAN too, which had nothing but NASA audio and video...Listening to the engineers run through their system launch procedures was pretty cool... :D