Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Live Thread 8:47 est

12/09/06 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Will the Shuttle go or not... It all depends on the weather...

[tiredoflaundry]

Waiting, watching & praying.

[AntiKev]

Just look, it'll be the fast one.

[WakeUpAndVote]

So, if I am in Eastern PA I will be able to see it!

[RightWhale]

Yep. We would be transitioning to the Ares by now anyway.

[Central Scrutiniser]

No, the flight over was great, but the flights home were overbooked.

[La Enchiladita]

I finally found the Live Feed.

[Unmarked Package]

"Unmarked, have you ever been involved with serious disc play??"

I can never be serious when I play with a frisbee. :-)

I know what you meant by your question, and my answer is no.

We now return you to the topic of the Space Shuttle Discovery launch....

[Texas_shutterbug]

I second that.

Waiting, watching, and praying!

[cripplecreek]

I wish they would launch one my way but it ain't gonna happen.

[LibWhacker]

Boy, can you imagine being aboard? I bet there's more butterflies there than Mexico.

[KevinDavis]

Countdown clock will resume in two minutes.

Once the countdown picks up, the Ground Launch Sequencer will be initiated. The computer program is located in a console in the Firing Room of the Complex 39 Launch Control Center. The GLS is the master of events through liftoff. During the last 9 minutes of the countdown, the computer will monitor as many as a thousand different systems and measurements to ensure that they do not fall out of any pre-determine red-line limits. At T-minus 31 seconds, the GLS will hand off to the onboard computers of Discovery to complete their own automatic sequence of events through the final half minute of the countdown.

[MamaB]

I was just thinking about that.

[RightWhale]

It might be visible, but look close because the flame from the motors is hydrogen-oxygen. Clear flame.

[Guenevere]

Heading out the door now to watch...

..hubby has his tripod set up....

[KevinDavis]

T-minus 9 minutes and counting! The Ground Launch Sequencer is now actively running this final phase of tonight's countdown to launch space shuttle Discovery.

[Pepper777]

Can you please re-post the Live Feed??

[cripplecreek]

My brother in law is a GUTS player. He goes to Europe and plays.

[markman46]

try here
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/science/space_shuttle

[IslandJeff]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060529.html

[Cvengr]

At T-minus 31 seconds, the GLS will hand off to the onboard computers of Discovery to complete their own automatic sequence of events through the final half minute of the countdown.Gee, that must be just moments before they light the fuse....