STS-116 Discovary live shuttle launch via NASA TV
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2250 Registered: May-05 |  Getting ready for STS-116 Discovary return to the ISS Go Discovery! Click here and select the video uplink http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2251 Registered: May-05 | Getting close, the JBL 4645 SUB BASS is ready to rock with the live night-time launch of STS-116 Discovery all crew is ready for com check! Click here and select the video uplink http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2252 Registered: May-05 | Oh cool I like the roger bleep coming over the JBL control 5 very cool all voice com links are verified for the crew of STS-116 Discovery! Click here and select the video uplink http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2253 Registered: May-05 | The hatch is now closed! Click here and select the video uplink http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2254 Registered: May-05 | 30% down now on the weather conditions which makes it very favourable, for a launch now! |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2255 Registered: May-05 | This is tense waiting... |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8007 Registered: Dec-04 | yup 45 seconds |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2256 Registered: May-05 | Gross weight at lift 4.5 million Each of the three main engines of Discovery has a thrust of 3849lbs each! 7 million lbs of lift-off power! Now that is rocking power make me what to turn up the JBL sound system! Weather forecast is now really improving for night-time launch of Discovery STS-116 back to the ISS. |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8009 Registered: Dec-04 | that is amazing man |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2257 Registered: May-05 | T-minus 20 minutes and holding in this built in time hold! All is go for 8:47.35 EDT |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2258 Registered: May-05 | James Are you watching via the NASA TV on the pc? |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2259 Registered: May-05 | T-minus 20 minutes and counting! |
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Gold Member Username: AdddisorderWest palm, Florida Post Number: 2255 Registered: Jan-06 | 20minutes? when i open the web page it says like 52minutes right now |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2260 Registered: May-05 | mat You can see the shuttle Discovery on your pc then and the firing control room? |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2261 Registered: May-05 | Satellite tracking of the ISS http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8016 Registered: Dec-04 | yeah I am watching it |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8018 Registered: Dec-04 | clear for launch 3 minutes 30 seconds |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2262 Registered: May-05 | Anyway where getting down close now the weather is go the launch is go! |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8019 Registered: Dec-04 | damnit!!!!! 9 minutes now I guess it was 3 minutes to resume countdown. |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2263 Registered: May-05 | Where at T-minus 9 minutes and counting! |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2264 Registered: May-05 | Discovery has cleared the tower! Good lucky STS-116 Discovery and God speed!  |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2265 Registered: May-05 | I knew she was going to launch tonight I knew it, and what an incredible site. best pre Christmas present I've seen I a long time! Discovery now in an elliptical orbit around the earth travailing at more than 17.500MPH! |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2266 Registered: May-05 | I can say, I could sure feel the lift-off of Discovery's engines via the JBL 4645 that was a lovingly feeling. All the cracking sound was there as well. |
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Gold Member Username: Nyyfan13Fi SSD USA Post Number: 1352 Registered: Jul-06 | thats pretty cool man. i wish i saw it live but i was busy celebrating my dads bday |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2267 Registered: May-05 | Still watching the footage from the launch, and I'll continue to have the pc online now until she returns home. |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2268 Registered: May-05 | Wow the live uplink from the ISS is out of this world! Real 2001 A Space Odyssey stuff! |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2269 Registered: May-05 | She's just passed over Oz down under, or is it the other way around. Wow some live footage of the earth wow.... |
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Gold Member Username: WingmanaliveNj US Post Number: 1811 Registered: Jun-06 | I've always wanted to go to a launch. Just to experience it. But what a gamble. What are the odds that the launch gets delayed? That would suck!!!!!! Airfare, hotel room, time off of work.......... |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2270 Registered: May-05 | The crew was awakened by former astronaut Shannon Lucid who served on Mir and countless Shuttle launches. She's now the cap-com for the crews wake up call in the morning!  |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2271 Registered: May-05 | The way the main engines and the SRB light up the vapour from the shuttle is like seeing a comet passing overhead. Only this one is climbing upwards at an angle!  |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2272 Registered: May-05 |  Remember the STS-114 Discovery return to flight when that bird got hit by the nose on the shuttle and then it got KFC Kennedy Fried Chicken by the rear end of the SRB! Solid Roasted Bird! \bThe crew said it was finger licking tasty a bit over cooked but tasty!}  |
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Gold Member Username: AdddisorderWest palm, Florida Post Number: 2264 Registered: Jan-06 | i walked outside and saw it last night it was pretty sweet |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2276 Registered: May-05 | Did you check it with the SPL db meter that would be very LOUD it's about 130db inside the cabin for the 8 minute ride! The outside is the complete opposite! |
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Gold Member Username: James1115Use a simple... Post Number: 8057 Registered: Dec-04 | that would be sweet to get a SPL meter of the take off. I bet Chauncey might know he is in the Nasa program. |
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Gold Member Username: Thx_3417Post Number: 2280 Registered: May-05 | Well lets get some SPL db readings of that wonderful ship! Now that they have soft docked and that the hatch is open work can now begein on the upgards to the ISS. |