Posted on 08/25/2006 4:48:21 PM PDT by RightWhale
FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2006 1430 GMT (10:30 a.m. EDT)
The shuttle Atlantis' countdown continues to tick smoothly toward launch on a space station assembly mission. Liftoff is targeted for 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The latest forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of favorable weather, improving to 80 percent "go" Monday and Teusday. The concern Sunday is for possible afternoon thunderstorms within the launch area.
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It depends on the launch window..
LOL, thanks for the (((PING))))
Because they want to catch up with this.
If the launch remains on schedule, I think chances are high that North Korea might be "testing" some missles come Sunday.
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:) One of the greatest thrills of my life was watching the night launch of Endeavor when I was in Orlando.
We have a mission specialist in our family here, he is retired...but he was one hell of a specialist.
God speed to all involved in this flight!
One of my regrets is that I did not join either the Air Force or the Navy to become a Naval Avaitor so I can become an Astronaut.
Yes, I understand the mission. It's not going to catch anything if it's sitting on the pad however. But what the heck, we can all get excited and then get disappointed as usual...;-)
On January 2nd after my 18th birthday (1970) I went to the Air Force Recruiters office, and after a prompt inspection of my eye glasses he told me to go to the Army and try to fly helos there...oh well such is life.
I agree oh well...
We learn almost nothing new with every new mission. We keep repeating the same processes and experiments over and over again. The US and the Russians learned how to build structures in space a long time ago. Any new construction is rehearsed ahead of time on computers and in water tanks.
Other than that the Shuttle and ISS should be scrapped so that NASA can get on to something useful. Sadly though, they are going to bogged down with W's ill advised moon mission.
restart construction of the International Space Station where it was left off six years agoWow, six years? I guess it has been that long.
I dont see the ticking timebomb of federal employee pensions on that list. Thats the elephant in the living room.
Forecasters are continuing to predict a 40 percent chance of afternoon storms that could block the planned 4:30 p.m. launch, but the outlook improves to 80 percent "go" Monday and Tuesday. NASA's launch strategy supports four attempts in five days and LeRoy Cain, director of shuttle integration at the Florida spaceport, told reporters "we feel very good about where we are going into the weekend." More at Spaceflight Now.
"We learn almost nothing new with every new mission. We keep repeating the same processes and experiments over and over again. The US and the Russians learned how to build structures in space a long time ago. Any new construction is rehearsed ahead of time on computers and in water tanks.'
How long have humans sailed the seas?
How long have we even had powered flight? about 100 years, let alone space travel?
The shuttle has not even flown 200 times.
The amount of people that have been in space would not fill a high school auditorium.
We are but a child stepping out on the porch the first and seeing the outside world.
We are learning everytime. Even if it is our own shortcomings or ability to maintain our resolve to press on.
These things we do today, they are not for us, they are for those yet unborn. As the endeavours of those before us put us where we are today. We OWE them to do our part too.
It is our time now. And we must use the tools at hand.
Besides it is inevitable. Computers and water tanks are not space. A human hand must do, and feel, and experience the reality. And computers cannot create human presence.
This is no different from any frontier. Each one has brought new challenges. You ask how easy these missions are of any astronaut. You ask them if they learned anything. We both know what those answers will be.
A Saturday morning ping....
There you go..and I thought Pluto was Popeye's dog
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