Posted on 05/09/2009 6:09:22 PM PDT by 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.
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>check out NASA TV. Pretty good feed and audio.
The NASA.gov website coverage trails the NASA TV coverage by about 30 seconds.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
the pictures I got were beautiful...then when the astronauts they had in the studio were talking they were minimizing the picture to put the astronauts picture in there.
when I switched to fox they showed the whole picture and did not cut into it or minimize it in any way...but of course they had insipid newsmen talking about what they knew not.
The should go back to the way when they faked the moonshots (ooooh, burn, . . . too soon?).
I have a 42” plasma tv and 100 high def channels...I'm not going to watch it on a 19” monitor on my computer.
Fox and Science Channel had the nice NASA feed and it was pretty much high def.....
Are you positive you don’t get NASA TV on your cable or satellite plan? You might have to dig around a bit to check.
they had it back when it was first available over 10 years ago...but band width is expensive and well, I suppose the kung fu channel is more important....
actually they dumped the kung fu channel too, thank goodness. They have so many channels but not that one. I am happy they have the science channel, discovery, learing channel, History channel and the various sports channels I watch...most of the other are paid movie channels like HBO and Showtime which I refuse to get.
The price of tin foil right now is far too high for any more conspiracy theory nuts of the alien kind.
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Looks great! Lol, I saved that same exact gif, it was the best one. I’d like to make it taking off from the ground up.
Good one to save.
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It’s 124x124
I made it 300x300 using HTML on a 100%x768 <Table BGcolor=”black”
<td align=”center” valign=”middle”
I’ll try making the BG TP
Then you can launch in the daytime!
I can probably do it in Animation shop but will have to do some clean up. Lol, I didn’t even realize we were on the shuttle thread, was watching the news.
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You know me, I will clean all those black speckles up, lol.
Hard to remove color when that color is in the gif too!
Looking good.
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Black specks are likely to be #111111 or #222222
I can probably remove them by setting from 1% to 3% or more when making BG TP
I just used the default 0% setting
I have an ‘eraser’ that removes them, that way it doesn’t take the black out of the shuttle too.
I almost didn’t bother watching, I didn’t think NASA would be stupid enough to try and launch in frozen weather. My Aunt called and asked about it, so I turned the TV on and, sure enough, they were trying it. It was still hard to believe.
Nice graphic
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