Posted on 04/04/2010 6:02:23 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Dear Lord Please Don't Let Me Frak Up!!
Launch replays.
..stepped out into our front yard and watched one of the best launches of my memory!
Sky was clear, air was cool, just beautiful!!
My husband took an amazing video of it.
The rumbling afterwards shook the houses & continued longer than I remember....
I’d wait for the press conference.
Lots of debris seen.
Honestly didn’t see any major chunks come off. I’ll look at the ET camera repeat and let you know.
Replays going on now on NASA TV....
I’m 3 minutes behind on the internet except for the launch itself on cable news.
Had to watch FOX, the computer was not a live direct feed, from what I observed.
LOL, same thought.
Our family went into our back yard and saw the shuttle rising into the heavens. Spectacular sight.
Around 3-4 minutes and at EFT separation from the EFT cam.
The ones at separation could not do damage but might be further evidence of damage.
Think this will be a topic until the exterior survey.
I was wondering ‘bout that.
I wonder just how they've improved their camera systems since they started - compared to the first Moon landing these are phenomenal.
Of course, it could be that those are the bugs attracted by the kleig lights on the back lot! ;^)
“Of course, it could be that those are the bugs attracted by the kleig lights on the back lot!”
That’s all it is. Bunch of fireflies. It is Florida, they do have those down there don’t they? No worries.
There’s so much ‘wash out’ from the light (it being night and all) that it’s hard to see anything fall off.
I’ll wait until the replay of the ET cam....
Could be that only the on-orbit inspection will tell.
When fox tells you Live,it is what they say it is...To bad this launch wasn’t on April fool’s day. would have had a mach up of a FOX recording rig parked down in Hollywood, tell everyone it is time to fool the masses. We have that special back lot for moon shots, shuttle launches, etc:)
I remember the idiots claiming that the whole Moon landing was staged on a Hollyweird back lot back then - can you imagine the ‘fun’ they would have caused had the Interwebs been active?
Great launch; really shows America at its best.
Just think, California has “Moonbeam” (AKA Jerry Brown)so ya, it would be fun to throw a monkey wrench in and watch a lib’s head implode!
Two excellent shots during liftoff on the replays (close up of the main-engines): the bottom of the MEFT was smokin’, and the shockwave that traveled all the way down...
I noticed that there were several orange-red flashes in the oxy-hydrogen exhausts as Discovery was climbing out. Don’t recall seeing those before.
As you mentioned, the post LO conference will be interesting.
Yeah - I also saw some flashes (red/orange) in the OH plume; hadn’t seen those before. Insulation pieces burning?
I was just watching the ET Cam replays, and about a minute after SRB Sep, I did see a bunch of small reflections of things dropping away from the Shuttle. It didn’t look like foam. They seemed to come from the side of the Shuttle itself. Not meaning to cause any kind of panic...but the first thing I thought was “tiles” Could it be that tiles off the side of the Shuttle was what we saw?
God, I hope not....
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