NASA clears Atlantis for Monday launch to Hubble (STS-125)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/9/09 | Marcia Dunn - ap

[NormsRevenge]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After months of delay, NASA cleared space shuttle Atlantis for a Monday launch to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Mission managers concluded Saturday that Atlantis is ready to take off on the long-awaited Hubble repair mission, the fifth and final one. Shuttle Endeavour is also in good shape at the other launch pad; it's on standby in case Atlantis is damaged during the flight and its seven astronauts need to be rescued.

Weather forecasters gave good odds for launching Atlantis: 80 percent. What's more, things were looking more encouraging at the emergency landing site in Spain, where only a slight chance of rain is expected Monday. Liftoff time is just after 2 p.m.

[VlPu]

“taking care of the Hubble is the only useful thing
the shuttle program does.”

The only problem I have with that statement is about what exactly Hubble does.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Hubble+photos%22+hoax

[dawn53]

My sister, nephew, and niece...plus grandnieces and grandnephews drove over this AM. They staked out their viewing spot at 9 AM and the only other word I’ve heard is that it’s “REALLY HOT.” We’re on the West Coast and can usually see the shuttle launches, but there looks like lots of low lying clouds, once it’s above the level of the clouds maybe we’ll catch a glimpse.

[stainlessbanner]

Live web-feed anyone?

[NormsRevenge]

Mission Status Center
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts125/status.html

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Latest Space Shuttle News
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

[NormsRevenge]

NASA TV

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

[SunkenCiv]

Hubble: a time machine that revolutionized astronomy
AFP on Yahoo | 5/11/09 | Jean-Louis Santini
Posted on 05/10/2009 12:09:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248124/posts

[Guenevere]

Scheduled for 2:01....I have time for a nap :^)

We're only about 20 miles as the crow flies...

I watch from my front yard.

[norraad]

They could have saved lots of lives & money by just not launching when it real cold out.

Not enough common sense and dirty fingernail wrench turners allowed to make decisions.

[TomGuy]

Link for MS Player Open URL

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

[Abathar]

I agree, took all those lives and billions of dollars to figure out rubber gets stiff and doesn’t seal well when it gets cold.

There must have been hundreds of people pointing fingers with one hand and covering their ass with the other behind closed doors that day.

[kinsman redeemer]

No launch constraints.
10-minutes left in pre-launch hold.

[kinsman redeemer]

All "Go!" No constraints (with a cloud build-up being watched currently) Atlantis CTL. Countdown resumes. T-minus 9-minutes. God's Speed!

[eraser2005]

Nah....

within 90 seconds, its moving downrange faster than it is climbing.... so the wide screen gets to be very advantageous for viewing as its trajectory flattens out even more...

By the time the SRBs separate, its flying along at roughly a 30 degree angle to the horizon...

[NormsRevenge]

..Tick tick tick...

and we have Lift-Off!!!

[NormsRevenge]

Go at Throttle Up..

[VlPu]

Dummy Shuttle Explosion for ... dummies
http://illuminati-theater.blogspot.com/2007/06/shuttle-challenger-in-1986-versus.html

[NormsRevenge]

MECO Main engine cut-off

[RedCell]

Booms (?) not required? Any idea of that one?

[Vaquero]

well they had it live on the Science Channel but did a crappy job with the video.....

they did a better video job on FoxNC.

[RedCell]

check out NASA TV. Pretty good feed and audio.