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Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

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Re: Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

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Post by timroman »

jasonkester wrote: post #3

There's no timer on the feed, but at the moment they appear to be vacuuming. I'll take that as a sign that it's not going to launch in the next hour. Anybody have an actual time when that's supposed to happen?

11:26am EDT or a little less than two hours from now. The launch window for today is only about 30 minutes.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/releases/2011/relea...

Re: Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

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Post by hugh3 »

It's strange to think that in fifty years of manned spaceflight, NASA has only ever built four types of spaceship: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle. The Shuttle had a good run. It was both technically awesome and in many ways ridiculous and pointless. Anyway, time for the future now.

Re: Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

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Post by brudgers »

In 1979, I watched the Enterprise+transporter fly in to Kennedy for the first time from the Indian River - that was a long time ago. Hell, it's even been 25 years since I turned on the TV to see Dan Rather using a model to explain the various external tanks and knew something bad had happened.

So while it is the passing of an era, with the ISS at the sharp point of manned space flight, I'm not about to let nostalgia cloud the objective fact that it doesn't matter whose hardware gets us off the ground and out toward the stars.

[edit] But that's not to imply that shuttle launches aren't really cool.

Re: Live coverage of the last Shuttle launch (STS-135, Atlantis)

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Post by dmboyd »

jasonkester wrote: post #3

There's no timer on the feed, but at the moment they appear to be vacuuming. I'll take that as a sign that it's not going to launch in the next hour. Anybody have an actual time when that's supposed to happen?

I think im seeing the same vacuuming footage. Slightly off topic, but what's with all the people wearing baseball caps indoors. Wouldn't it obscure a large portion of your vision?
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