View Full Version : Shuttle launch scheduled for today!
Amphibious 07-01-2006, 10:15 AM I just want TR members to realize the launch of Discovery today scheduled for 3:49 pm Eastern.
This shot was taken early this morning................
http://www.theculturedreef.com/STS-121_800x640.jpg
Pray for a safe launch, mission and return.
Here's a link to NASA and a streaming tv coverage - http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts-121_front/index.html
You can watch the events unfold as they happen. My wife and I are heading up the Space Coast to get a closer view of the launch.
Have a great!
Dick
this i have been watching closely...
hope everything goes off perfect..
pham411 07-01-2006, 05:20 PM thats an awsome picture, ne1 seen a launch live in person? must be the SHIZZZZ!
veriann 07-01-2006, 07:16 PM well sunday i will be watching! slight delay, but thats raceing.
i do hope your boys make it up without a hitch. we need the projected 16flights on a global level to bring us where we should be. Alot of people dont understand what the fuss about space is, besides pushing the fronters doing it, when something goes horridly wrong on earth, i'll be saying sorry to these people, cause u cant come along. only the ones supporting the efforts along the course can re-populate another planet! lol>>>>& this is definately a job for me!
wwest 07-01-2006, 07:24 PM do you think they would let us bring our tanks with us? :)
veriann 07-01-2006, 07:40 PM why not, there were American space monkeys and USSR cosmo dogs and Aussie spiders
wwest 07-01-2006, 07:43 PM sweet :)
fat walrus 07-01-2006, 08:24 PM launch has been called of with 9 minutes left on countdown.
fat walrus 07-01-2006, 08:26 PM do you think they would let us bring our tanks with us? :)
NASA has already taken goldfish into space on a shuttle.
Amphibious 07-01-2006, 08:31 PM I've seen two of them. They are awesome!
What a day. One and one half hours to get there and four hours to get home. The first hour was dead stopped in traffic for one hour. Did not move an inch. Then 1 1/2 hour to get out of little Tittusville and 1 1/2 hours back home. As awesome as it is, I think tomorrow I'll watch from the comfort of home. Although.......
The two best LFSs in the area are up near there. I was going to stop on the way home but the traffic delay put us past their hours of operation. Hmmm...What to do, what to do? :p
wwest 07-01-2006, 08:35 PM :) didnt know that. i bet that was some ride lol
fat walrus 07-01-2006, 08:37 PM any tailgate barbeques?
Amphibious 07-01-2006, 08:48 PM The ride home was ugly. Tested my patience to the edge. I kid you not!!! My wife was amazed I didn't lose it and said, "The door to heaven will swing open wider for you for not losing your cool".
Grrrrrrrrrr!!!
veriann 07-02-2006, 06:20 AM tailgate bbq, thats a fantastic idea! lol, i would never have thought that possible, but with the grid lock u guys have, i guess its do-able
Amphibious 07-04-2006, 03:10 PM You may have watched it on TV as I did. Didn't want to fight the crowd again as on Saturday. It would be worse today being the 4th of July.
Here's what it looked like from my house approx 100 miles South of the launch site......
http://www.theculturedreef.com/STS-121-7-4-06.jpg
Pretty impressive! God Bless America! Have a safe flight and return STS-121, may God speed.
Dick
AWESOME!!!
i have never seen one launch, thanks for the pic.. it seems more real than just seeing them on tv
fat walrus 07-04-2006, 09:51 PM Pretty impressive! God Bless America! Have a safe flight and return STS-121, may God speed.
Dick
what can be more fitting than a launch on INDEPENDENCE DAY! God is watching over AMERICA, and the astronauts.
veriann 07-04-2006, 10:41 PM god is woven into american fabric im assuming. i ask him/her for stuff all the time, "god id love a drink" :D
but seriously thats a great launch. foam or no foam we got to bring our people back alive this time! if its god u ask these things for so be it!
i'll stick to the human spirit & know-how, but if i did say praires id prop use them on the return!
fat walrus 07-04-2006, 10:55 PM "god id love a drink" :D
even the most skeptical will eventually call on the big guy. lol
don't be mistaken, we also have FAITH in human know-how of AMERICANS.....and AMERICAN TECHOLOGY.
veriann 07-05-2006, 11:42 AM even the most skeptical will eventually call on the big guy. lol
don't be mistaken, we also have FAITH in human know-how of AMERICANS.....and AMERICAN TECHOLOGY.
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its just a pitty we dont have a space program. how many steves can one universe handle? we'd be riding rockets like a man after a 12ft croc! with a piece of rope in one hand & a tinnie in the other listening to old slim dusty records whilst trying to tame an out of control beast with harsh language!:madmad:
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