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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

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To: ChadGore

If you keep pressing PageDown, that looks cool!


661 posted on 07/04/2006 12:20:22 PM PDT by tlj18 (Shipping out for Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on July 27, 2006)
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To: tlj18

Discovery's orbit has been circularized.


662 posted on 07/04/2006 12:21:08 PM PDT by tlj18 (Shipping out for Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on July 27, 2006)
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To: toldyou

Here's a good one:

http://www.earthsky.org/


663 posted on 07/04/2006 12:23:10 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Central Scrutiniser
Everyone, go to www.heavens-above.com in a few hours, the ISS and shuttle should make a few passes over the west tonite and tomorrow, you may get a rare chance to see the shuttle and station flying in tandem across your sky, its quite nice.

I saw the Shuttle and Mir flying in tandem a few years back, about five moon widths apart. There also was a third visible satellite almost in the same orbital plane.

664 posted on 07/04/2006 12:23:50 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: toldyou
JTrack3d -->HERE's a great place to track satellites.
665 posted on 07/04/2006 12:24:10 PM PDT by WSGilcrest (Mikey likes it!)
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To: Central Scrutiniser

Thank you so much!


666 posted on 07/04/2006 12:25:14 PM PDT by toldyou
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To: tlj18

Thanks..is it just a website...or is their a TV channel that is NASA TV??


667 posted on 07/04/2006 12:25:40 PM PDT by Txsleuth (FREEPATHON TIME--HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!)
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To: Howlin

Thank you, Howlin!


668 posted on 07/04/2006 12:27:09 PM PDT by toldyou
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To: tlj18
From spaceflightnow.com:

A quick review of video shows small pieces of debris shedding from the external fuel tank about three minutes after liftoff.

669 posted on 07/04/2006 12:27:38 PM PDT by tlj18 (Shipping out for Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on July 27, 2006)
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To: KevinDavis

God Speed.


670 posted on 07/04/2006 12:27:55 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Txsleuth
The best stream is here.
671 posted on 07/04/2006 12:29:02 PM PDT by tlj18 (Shipping out for Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on July 27, 2006)
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To: toldyou

Here are some more:

http://skyandtelescope.com/#

(Use the Interactive Sky Chart)

Virtual Solar System:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem/splash.html




672 posted on 07/04/2006 12:30:08 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: KevinDavis
Kev, this is up at nasaspaceflight.com, its the piece I saw about 1 minute or so after SRB sep.


673 posted on 07/04/2006 12:36:35 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser ("You can't really dust for vomit.")
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674 posted on 07/04/2006 12:37:31 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser ("You can't really dust for vomit.")
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To: Txsleuth

DTV, channel 376. Great coverage too.


675 posted on 07/04/2006 12:37:38 PM PDT by Chuck54 ("A truly wealthy man is one who can live his life as he wishes")
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To: Central Scrutiniser; All

Looks like the debris went away from the shuttle...


676 posted on 07/04/2006 12:40:28 PM PDT by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: WSGilcrest

I see they have a "kids" and "student" section. That should be good for him. Will be interesting for me, too. Thanks so much for the info!


677 posted on 07/04/2006 12:41:13 PM PDT by toldyou
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To: Txsleuth

This is the link I'm using (its silent sometimes):

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773

It was accessed from this site:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html


678 posted on 07/04/2006 12:41:24 PM PDT by CedarDave (When a soldier dies, a protester gloats, a family cries, an Iraqi votes)
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To: KevinDavis

I'm not too worried, it was when they were pretty high up, and it was pretty small, I think it will be a clean bottom.


679 posted on 07/04/2006 12:41:47 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser ("You can't really dust for vomit.")
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To: Central Scrutiniser

"Open the pod bay doors, hall"


680 posted on 07/04/2006 12:43:35 PM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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