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Shuttle Launch Tonight
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Walked out to the beach and watched it. Fairly clear along the coast, could see the SRBs fall until they just about hit the water. Saw the orbiter just about forever as a bright dot. Good to see a night-launch again!
And then I read this...and they thought Y2K was supposed to be a problem /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Shuttle computers are not designed to make the change from the 365th day of the old year to the first day of the new year while in flight. The space agency has figured out a solution for the New Year's Day problem, but managers are reluctant to try it.
And then I read this...and they thought Y2K was supposed to be a problem /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Shuttle computers are not designed to make the change from the 365th day of the old year to the first day of the new year while in flight. The space agency has figured out a solution for the New Year's Day problem, but managers are reluctant to try it.
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Yup, ran outdoors and watched it climb. As seperation occurred it appeared to be on a really "shallow" N.E. trajectory. Could see the 'dot' for quite a while. Much different than the last night launch we saw. I think that was a Hubble mission.
Local TV stations didn't ~bother~ to cover it! Idiots.
Local TV stations didn't ~bother~ to cover it! Idiots.
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Local TV stations didn't ~bother~ to cover it! Idiots.
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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/iagree.gif We really have become complacent about space travel, haven't we? Guess that's inevitable, but sad, still.
Makes me wonder what it would take to "rock our world" once more (in a good way, for a change).
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Local TV stations didn't ~bother~ to cover it! Idiots.
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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/iagree.gif We really have become complacent about space travel, haven't we? Guess that's inevitable, but sad, still.
Makes me wonder what it would take to "rock our world" once more (in a good way, for a change).
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Local TV stations didn't ~bother~ to cover it! Idiots.
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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/iagree.gif We really have become complacent about space travel, haven't we? Guess that's inevitable, but sad, still.
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It's nothing new. The first glide-tests of the shuttle were televised. I was in elementary school at the time, and asked the teachers if we could watch it. You would have thought I'd asked if we could have mud wrestling in the cafeteria. The interest in the subsequent launches was just as bad - at that time I was a licensed ham radio operator, and a local VHF repeater group was rebroadcasting all the shuttle communications. I wanted to listen to it... again, not only was there no interest shown by the teachers, but I was threatened with disciplinary actions for having my radio with me.
With that in mind, it's always nice to see how many people around here are really enthusiastic about every launch - even the unmanned launches. I'm sure part of it is just the spectacle of seeing a rocket light up the sky, but last night the crowd along the beachside road, the beach, and in front of the buildings erupted into applause and cheers when the shuttle launched. Kind of nice really.
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Local TV stations didn't ~bother~ to cover it! Idiots.
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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/iagree.gif We really have become complacent about space travel, haven't we? Guess that's inevitable, but sad, still.
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It's nothing new. The first glide-tests of the shuttle were televised. I was in elementary school at the time, and asked the teachers if we could watch it. You would have thought I'd asked if we could have mud wrestling in the cafeteria. The interest in the subsequent launches was just as bad - at that time I was a licensed ham radio operator, and a local VHF repeater group was rebroadcasting all the shuttle communications. I wanted to listen to it... again, not only was there no interest shown by the teachers, but I was threatened with disciplinary actions for having my radio with me.
With that in mind, it's always nice to see how many people around here are really enthusiastic about every launch - even the unmanned launches. I'm sure part of it is just the spectacle of seeing a rocket light up the sky, but last night the crowd along the beachside road, the beach, and in front of the buildings erupted into applause and cheers when the shuttle launched. Kind of nice really.
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Local TV stations didn't ~bother~ to cover it! Idiots.
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I know at least one Orlando station usually does, and some of the radio stations. It's more of a local event to them though.
The best TV coverage is straight of NASA TV if you can get it. They replay the launch from dozens of different angles. Last time they even had a cameras on the SRBs showing absolutely crystal clear images. When they separated from the orbiter the cameras kept working right down to hitting the water and bobbing around afterward.
Local TV stations didn't ~bother~ to cover it! Idiots.
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I know at least one Orlando station usually does, and some of the radio stations. It's more of a local event to them though.
The best TV coverage is straight of NASA TV if you can get it. They replay the launch from dozens of different angles. Last time they even had a cameras on the SRBs showing absolutely crystal clear images. When they separated from the orbiter the cameras kept working right down to hitting the water and bobbing around afterward.
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I got to watch a shuttle launch several years ago (long distance as I was at the track in Sebring)...it was amazing even from afar!
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I hope to someday get down there far a launch! When the Shuttle came apart on re-entry a couple years ago, we were sitting at the breakfast table and heard the sonic boom as it came apart over New Mexico. A short while later we learned the sad news of what it was we had heard.
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For those like me that didn't even know about the launch until this post... I found NASA TV! Thanks! It's live all the time. Just saw them go from light to dark. There gaining on the International Space Station which they show on the video off in the distance. Docking tommorrow.
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html
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Hey Doc!
It's all new to me! What an adventure! I'm still trying to get out of the mid twentieth century but then again there are some things I'd rather not or just can't let go of.
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It's all new to me! What an adventure! I'm still trying to get out of the mid twentieth century but then again there are some things I'd rather not or just can't let go of.
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