FlightMan

For those of you night owls, or if you're working nights, another triumph of grunt over gravity is coming up.

Date:March 11
Mission: STS-119
Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Discovery
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A
Launch Time: 9:20 p.m. EDT
Description: Space shuttle Discovery launching on assembly flight 15A, will deliver the fourth starboard truss segment to the International Space Station.

Nasa TV NASA - NASA TV will broadcast the launch live. Launch is scheduled for 01:20 UTC Thursday morning.

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Cool thx. Is that takeoff time then?

jasey

Lucky enough to have been in Florida for two shuttle launches (coincidence not a space nutter ).

They're awesome pieces of kit

Leslie

Its a sight well worth seeing.

Les

urban

iTrader: (1)

I saw the shuttle take off last year whilst on a cruise ship.
We had left port canaveral and the shuttle passed over the ship at 2am local time.

Amazing sight to see.
TV does it no justice - in real life you actually see how fast it goes, and how long that Flame out the back is.
I heard some noise, but was quite a distance away still.

Shaun

bugeyeandy

Good call, that same link is showing the planned space walk going on a 4pm today

The joys of shift work, i'll get to watch both