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Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Live Thread 2:38 EDT (Successful launch -- Discovery in Space)
07/04/06
| Kevin Davis
Posted on 07/04/2006 5:39:41 AM PDT by KevinDavis
Third time the charm?
TOPICS: Breaking News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: godspeeddiscovery; nasa; shuttlediscovery; space; spaceshuttle
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To: Pirate21
"It's amazing that God entrusted man with the ability to achieve such things as this. This is awesome."
OH YEAH!
Went all goose pimply watching this awesome feat.
To: GRRRRR
BEAUTIFUL screen captures!!!
xxooxxx
I will never forget this... I hope!!
562
posted on
07/04/2006 11:53:09 AM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(God Bless Our Troops...including U.S. Border Patrol, America's First Line of Defense)
To: RightWhale
563
posted on
07/04/2006 11:53:18 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: All
Thank heavens for replays! I was outside looking for it and didn't see a thing. Too much cloud cover between me and it, I guess.
564
posted on
07/04/2006 11:53:21 AM PDT
by
debg
To: TomGuy
565
posted on
07/04/2006 11:53:27 AM PDT
by
oxcart
(Journalism [Sic])
To: Peach
Okie dokie! We're going places too!
Later.
566
posted on
07/04/2006 11:53:35 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
To: TomGuy
Thanks for the pix Tom! I got "tied up" and missed it...
567
posted on
07/04/2006 11:53:41 AM PDT
by
DollyCali
(Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
To: Clint N. Suhks
Just outside our atmosphere. When it comes back, the atmosphere has to slow it down from 18,000 MPH to zero, hence temperatures 3,000+ degrees.
568
posted on
07/04/2006 11:53:57 AM PDT
by
tlj18
(Shipping out for Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on July 27, 2006)
To: tina07
569
posted on
07/04/2006 11:54:03 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
To: KevinDavis
I don't recall seeing anything fly by as it was takinging...
570
posted on
07/04/2006 11:54:08 AM PDT
by
raygun
To: oxcart
No one else even can do this! Exactly!
To Osama & friends thinking you can bring down the USofA: This is how we celebrate our country's birthday - how do you? Oh that's right - you have no country - you're just a parasite.
571
posted on
07/04/2006 11:54:08 AM PDT
by
daybreakcoming
(If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. A. Lincoln)
To: TomGuy
spaceflightnow.com
1851:55 GMT (2:51:55 p.m. EDT)
T+plus 14 minutes. Discovery has reached a preliminary sub-orbital trajectory. Coming up, the Orbital Maneuvering System engines will be fired to raise the low point to a safe altitude.
Not quite done with the entire launch sequence at this point.
572
posted on
07/04/2006 11:54:26 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: Howlin
I just love fireworks in the morning.....
Happy Independence Day, Howlin!
573
posted on
07/04/2006 11:54:34 AM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
To: tina07
I had a boss that did summer work at IBM. A EE student, he had to clip off any protruding wires on curved
printed circuit boards. He said that it didn't take too long measuring solder joints to get the mechanical
guys to create a jig that he could just slide the boards through until he hit an out of spec joint.
To: KevinDavis
Godspeed, Discovery.
I doubt anybody will actually read this, down here in the late 500s, but anybody who watched this launch absolutely MUST MUST MUST read Bill Whittle's essay COURAGE. I'm not ashamed to say I cried.
575
posted on
07/04/2006 11:54:42 AM PDT
by
Politicalities
(http://www.politicalities.com)
To: Clint N. Suhks
"I'm just astonished anything can go that fast."
Is Jeff Gordon piloting that thing!?
576
posted on
07/04/2006 11:54:48 AM PDT
by
neal1960
(This space for rent.)
To: KevinDavis
Reuters: Democrats Grieve Successful Shuttle Launch; Political Ploy to Make Americans Proud...
577
posted on
07/04/2006 11:54:50 AM PDT
by
Flightdeck
((Liberals running America)/(Armageddon)=1)
To: Howlin
578
posted on
07/04/2006 11:55:03 AM PDT
by
paulat
To: La Enchiladita
Here are the potential sightings of the shuttle in Raleigh
THE FOLLOWING SHUTTLE SIGHTINGS ARE POSSIBLE FROM TUE JUL 04 TO WED JUL 19
SATELLITE LOCAL DURATION MAX ELEV APPROACH DEPARTURE
DATE/TIME (MIN) (DEG) (DEG-DIR) (DEG-DIR)
SHUTTLE Wed Jul 05/10:07 PM < 1 67 48 above WNW 65 above WSW
SHUTTLE Thr Jul 06/10:24 PM 1 19 15 above W 19 above WSW
SHUTTLE Fri Jul 07/09:12 PM 3 89 62 above NW 11 above SE
SHUTTLE Sat Jul 08/09:35 PM 3 20 19 above WSW 11 above S
and here is the link to find YOUR possible times for seeing it:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States
579
posted on
07/04/2006 11:55:20 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: tlj18
Discovery now over the North Atlantic.
580
posted on
07/04/2006 11:55:27 AM PDT
by
tlj18
(Shipping out for Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on July 27, 2006)
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