Discovery shuttle goes up in T-1h15 (LIVE VID)
 

Hell yeah, they are launching the shuttle on a 4th of July. And you can watch EVERYTHING live from this link : http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Choose the left column option : + Watch with Windows Media (Best for Full Screen)

It worth the watch :thumbsup :thumbsup

Wow big deal I can go outside and watch

Good luck Discovery...

It's a great day for the launch... nothing but blue skys outside today.. Maybe I'll walk down to the beach to watch it.

big fireworks :thumbsup

T minus 40 woo hooo..lookin' good Houston :thumbsup

..although the guy holding that yellow pipe looks a bit tired

Thanks for the reminder and the link Basic_Man :thumbsup

I really hope this one doesn't fuck up

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RYCsz3XltSc

t-31 w00t!

I am going to watch it in my back yard

My aunt used to work there and was in one of the support buildings that was very close to that pad when that one blew. She said there was so much shit that was destroyed.. People's cars buildings everything. She said they didn't show but a fraction of the damage on the news.

It's kind of sad that people used to watch these things out of appreciation for mankinds achievements instead of watching it "Just in case" it explodes.

Best of luck Discovery.

I saw the first 20 or so shuttle launches at KSC when I was growing up.. The fact that the thing might blow up never crossed my mind until the Challenger blew up on take off. I'll always remember that day as I was watching out of my 7th grade history class window.

wow...that's fucked up

pretty crazy shit

did it launch yet?

configuring helium jhgghg somethin

15 minutes

nvm.. about 15 minutes left!@

The clock says 14 minutes but I think there is a short final hold at T minus 4 minutes or thereabouts.:thumbsup

Isn't there a crack somewhere, or something? And they're still launching it?

Hopefully everything goes well! :thumbsup

"cpd copy otc copy launch window at preferred time today"


cool ass link

:thumbsup basic_man

clock stopped again at 9:00:00

Why the timer stopped at 9 min?

i really think they do that shit to fuck with people, because if it were an actual problem I would think they would just stop the clock when they discovered the issue and not on the minute mark

There are built in hold times like 10 mins each

It's a scheduled hold-on.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sh...ntdown101.html

Now, how much time will this take?

edit-See above

sweet.




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Launch scheduled @ 2h38 !

3 minutes until 9 minutes countdown ! :thumbsup :thumbsup

less than 3 mins till launch

Liftoff!

I love watching that. I saw one in person back in the eighties, a long time ago but it's still cool to watch.

Succesfull liftoff!

Seems that all will run smoothly...

Egomancer

I have live video on fox news

Almost there. Everything went off good !

well, the launch ran smoothly, but given nasa's track record with fuck ups there is a long road ahead

I really wish they had the money to revamp the space program and start from scratch building new shit with the knowledge they have now

wish I could go with...

Wow big deal my bro is sitting in the command center..

But neither case helps the rest of us that appreciate the link... :)