Shuttle Launch Cleared to go in 18 mins

[brantuk]

Tell you what - I've never seen a thread grow so fast lol

[Stephen]

Failing a ride on Branson's thingie....................i am gonna have to be a tourist and visit the US and take the tour of Kennedy etc.

Do it mate, I did it last year (after 30 years of waiting) and it was just incredible

[Stephen]

That was cutting a bit fine with the lounch window, about 10 secs, left I think.

2 seconds!!

[Horus]

Your not wrong Brant ......

[John]

Failing a ride on Branson's thingie....................i am gonna have to be a tourist and visit the US and take the tour of Kennedy etc.

Well worth a visit (or two ). Great for wildlife watching in the surrounding nature reserves as well. Gators, Osprey, Bald Eagles, Spoonbills, Manatee, Dolphins in the Banana River - fantastic place

[nemesis]

Video on Youtube of Launch

[MrsR]

Tell you what - I've never seen a thread grow so fast lol

Think Heaven-Above site has crashed with tons of us trying to get on to find out next pass for the ISS!

[brantuk]

Saturday night at 6:30pm (ish) I think we should see it over the UK couple of mins behind the ISS

[Stephen]

Think Heaven-Above site has crashed with tons of us trying to get on to find out next pass for the ISS!

Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data

[mark skelton]

2 seconds!!

That's closer than I thought. Hope the rest of the mission goes ok.

[Horus]

It has.........

[Photosbykev]

Think Heaven-Above site has crashed with tons of us trying to get on to find out next pass for the ISS!

Saturday evening 18:35 will be the first reasonable pass, the STS will be trailing the ISS before docking at 19:16

[Horus]

What direction ?

[MrsR]

Human Space Flight (HSF) - Realtime Data

Thanks

[smudgeball]

Some IT guy must have been under pressure to get that down range computer working !

[brantuk]

Thanks Kev - for some reason I thought it was Fri today lol - post ammended

[LukeSkywatcher]

Tell you what - I've never seen a thread grow so fast lol

We are watching the beginning of the end.

Its is HISTORIC.

[brantuk]

Thanks for the link Kh3ldar

[Photosbykev]

What direction ?

from my earlier post

Appears 18h34m03s 4.8mag az:235.7° SW horizon

Culmination 18h38m51s -0.4mag az:159.2° SSE h:34.1°

distance: 602.4km height above Earth: 355.8km elevation of sun: -8°

Disappears 18h41m18s 0.7mag az: 94.1° E h:11.9°

^^Calsky numbers based on viewing from Cemaes bay on Anglesey^^

[LukeSkywatcher]

Do it mate, I did it last year (after 30 years of waiting) and it was just incredible

I dont mean a transatlantic flight on Virgin Airways.

Although that would be involved.

[zedds]

Did anyone else see a big piece of foam break away and hit the underside of the shuttle. I checked again on youtube and that`s what it looks like, at 4mins and 44sec.

I hope everything will be ok.

[MrsR]

We are watching the beginning of the end.

Its is HISTORIC.

Think my excited rambling aren't helping - probably expanding it too quickly

[brantuk]

Ohh that's cool - it even shows which constellations it goes through - love it

[Stephen]

Did anyone else see a big piece of foam break away and hit the underside of the shuttle. I checked again on youtube and that`s what it looks like, at 4mins and 44sec.

I hope everything will be ok.

I thought I saw it, don't know what to think ...

[Horus]

Thanks Kev , let's hope we have clear skies !