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Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
curious
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Date: February 24, 2011 02:17PM
Watch NASA TV:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-134
As of right now they're suited up and in the orbiter- 2 to 3 hours away from liftoff-
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-134
As of right now they're suited up and in the orbiter- 2 to 3 hours away from liftoff-
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
eesh
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Date: February 24, 2011 02:56PM
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Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
curious
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Date: February 24, 2011 03:12PM
T minus 44 minutes and counting . . . everything seems to be going good so far-
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
pdawg
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Date: February 24, 2011 03:36PM
Jeez. The lengths Mark Kelly will go to get away from his wife.
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
BigK
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Date: February 24, 2011 04:23PM
By the way it is STS-133 today not STS-134. And Kelly will be on the next one, not this flight.
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
tomahawk
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Date: February 24, 2011 04:56PM
Liftoff...and SRB sep
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
tomahawk
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Date: February 24, 2011 05:04PM
And that's it, Discovery's final launch.
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
ThePackLeader
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Date: February 24, 2011 05:08PM
What a gorgeous liftoff! MECO/Preliminary orbit achieved.
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/24/2011 05:08PM by ThePackLeader.
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
spacey
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Date: February 24, 2011 05:29PM
i was watching the coverage and the commentator blamed the end of the shuttle program on the Challenger disaster.. is this true? I thought it had to do with reduced budgets...
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
ThePackLeader
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Date: February 24, 2011 08:16PM
Did any of you catch the tile that fell off?
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
TheMeeper
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Date: February 24, 2011 09:00PM
spacey Wrote:
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> i was watching the coverage and the commentator
> blamed the end of the shuttle program on the
> Challenger disaster.. is this true? I thought it
> had to do with reduced budgets...
The Shuttle program lived on for 25 years after the Challenger disaster, so that's not the reason. The International Space Station is almost completed, there's no need to haul all that stuff up there anymore. Single-launch vehicles can serve that purpose. We were supposed to develop the Constellation rockets to do that, but the program was canceled 2 years ago. Instead we'll rely on Russia's Soyuz vehicles to transport people to the ISS, until we build something of our own. Our Shuttle will no longer have a viable purpose. A re-launchable vehicle with a big payload isn't needed. Even if there was a budget for it, what would we do with it? There are other "cheaper" ways of accomplishing what is planned.
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> i was watching the coverage and the commentator
> blamed the end of the shuttle program on the
> Challenger disaster.. is this true? I thought it
> had to do with reduced budgets...
The Shuttle program lived on for 25 years after the Challenger disaster, so that's not the reason. The International Space Station is almost completed, there's no need to haul all that stuff up there anymore. Single-launch vehicles can serve that purpose. We were supposed to develop the Constellation rockets to do that, but the program was canceled 2 years ago. Instead we'll rely on Russia's Soyuz vehicles to transport people to the ISS, until we build something of our own. Our Shuttle will no longer have a viable purpose. A re-launchable vehicle with a big payload isn't needed. Even if there was a budget for it, what would we do with it? There are other "cheaper" ways of accomplishing what is planned.
Re: Space Shuttle Discovery is Launching Today (STS-134)
Posted by:
Shadow
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Date: February 24, 2011 09:49PM
ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> Did any of you catch the tile that fell off?
Yeah, actually there were two pieces that fell off, not sure if they were tiles or foam. I believe it was foam though and it didn't fall off until it was well into the air, evidently that makes a big difference. Still waiting to hear what NASA says about it.
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> Did any of you catch the tile that fell off?
Yeah, actually there were two pieces that fell off, not sure if they were tiles or foam. I believe it was foam though and it didn't fall off until it was well into the air, evidently that makes a big difference. Still waiting to hear what NASA says about it.