STS-125 Launch - 2:01 pm EDT
11 May 2009, 04:01 PM
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STS-125 Launch - 2:01 pm EDT
Just a heads up for shuttle launch fans that Atlantis is scheduled to launch at 2:01 pm EDT - three hours from now.
Here is a link for the NASA TV coverage.
Here is a link for the NASA TV coverage.
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11 May 2009, 06:50 PM
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Go/No just performed. Go for launch.
Constraints check performed, no constraints. Atlantis has clearance to launch.
3 mins left at the T-9 Hold.
Constraints check performed, no constraints. Atlantis has clearance to launch.
3 mins left at the T-9 Hold.
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11 May 2009, 10:43 PM
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I missed the last launch by about 10 mins (just late enough to see the tank separate and watch the replay!).
However, tuned in early this time, and it was a great show!
A shame we won't get the amazing pictures in space from the space station on this mission....
However, tuned in early this time, and it was a great show!
A shame we won't get the amazing pictures in space from the space station on this mission....
11 May 2009, 11:26 PM
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I realise this is from an old thread here but these pics are awesome...
Round trip with Endeavour - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Round trip with Endeavour - The Big Picture - Boston.com
12 May 2009, 08:37 AM
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One of the replies to those pics...
'...The money invested in high-science endeavors and subsequent programs is an expensive investment, only to be undertaken by the greatest and strongest nations on Earth. A look back in history tells you that, when high-science was in the realm of war machines, weaponry, and armor or in the realm of exploration and armadas. They were meant to have a return on investment and they secured that program and that nation's place in history. If a nation has the natural resources, the human intellect and will, and the basis of captial, then the return on this investment results in massive economic and scientific ramifications that trickles to the shipbuilders, the farmers, the shopkeepers, the artists and scientists, the educators, the craftsmen and technicians, the families of those who seek gainful employment, and to the industrial machines that employ these people . . . no matter what century. Yes, the capitalists and the politicians will benefit, too, but if they didn't, there would be no starting point. The short-sightedness to end this kind of investment in order to "take care of the poor and the hungry" is simply a folly and will ultimately beset the entire society in a downward spiral. Look at Greeks, Rome, look at Carthage, look at the Persians, look at Spain, and now look at England . . . once great, now depleted. That is your future if you ignore the need for a great nation to remain great, to invest in the brightest and the best, to spend it's natural resources, wealth, and human spirit in a venture of high-science. That is what creates a return on investment and all the inventions, technology, and advances that come with it. And that's what continues to feed the "poor and the hungry: . . . otherwise, we're all distined to become poor and hungry.
To the greater good, to high-science, and the continued advancement of mankind - lest we still belong in caves...'
Posted by Lance March 30, 09 09:57 PM
'...The money invested in high-science endeavors and subsequent programs is an expensive investment, only to be undertaken by the greatest and strongest nations on Earth. A look back in history tells you that, when high-science was in the realm of war machines, weaponry, and armor or in the realm of exploration and armadas. They were meant to have a return on investment and they secured that program and that nation's place in history. If a nation has the natural resources, the human intellect and will, and the basis of captial, then the return on this investment results in massive economic and scientific ramifications that trickles to the shipbuilders, the farmers, the shopkeepers, the artists and scientists, the educators, the craftsmen and technicians, the families of those who seek gainful employment, and to the industrial machines that employ these people . . . no matter what century. Yes, the capitalists and the politicians will benefit, too, but if they didn't, there would be no starting point. The short-sightedness to end this kind of investment in order to "take care of the poor and the hungry" is simply a folly and will ultimately beset the entire society in a downward spiral. Look at Greeks, Rome, look at Carthage, look at the Persians, look at Spain, and now look at England . . . once great, now depleted. That is your future if you ignore the need for a great nation to remain great, to invest in the brightest and the best, to spend it's natural resources, wealth, and human spirit in a venture of high-science. That is what creates a return on investment and all the inventions, technology, and advances that come with it. And that's what continues to feed the "poor and the hungry: . . . otherwise, we're all distined to become poor and hungry.
To the greater good, to high-science, and the continued advancement of mankind - lest we still belong in caves...'
Posted by Lance March 30, 09 09:57 PM
12 May 2009, 09:22 AM
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So it was delayed then?
I stayed in work to try and see it, but got bored waiting and went home about 6.30
I saw a night time launch when on holiday in the states - Amazing.
The speed that it travels up at isn't really portrayed properly on TV.
Shaun
I stayed in work to try and see it, but got bored waiting and went home about 6.30
I saw a night time launch when on holiday in the states - Amazing.
The speed that it travels up at isn't really portrayed properly on TV.
Shaun
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12 May 2009, 09:41 AM
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Watched the Columbia mission a few days ago - why they never went out to the check the tiles I will never know.
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