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Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Live Thread (7/15/09 6:03 p.m. EDT)
07/14/09 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 07/14/2009 6:28:26 PM PDT by KevinDavis

I hope the weather is good....


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: endeavor; iss; launch; nasa; shuttle; shuttleendeavour; space; spaceshuttle; sts127
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To: don-o
Anyone notice vapor coming off the top of the thing at around 50 seconds...

Yep, I saw that too. It's that vapor effect that happens around aircraft at speed under certain conditions of pressure and temperature. It's commonly associated with breaking the sound barrier, though that's not exactly always true. It's got a name that I can never remember.

61 posted on 07/15/2009 3:14:12 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: tet68

Orbit.

Go Endeavour!


62 posted on 07/15/2009 3:14:32 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Ramius

I’m watching the lightning move into the area none too soon.

Right now, 6:17, would be a scrub.


63 posted on 07/15/2009 3:17:15 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT 2006; now living north of Tampa Bay)
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To: Ramius

Ah... that’s it... the Prandtl-Glauert singularity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prandtl-Glauert_singularity

I can never remember that name.


64 posted on 07/15/2009 3:17:37 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: George from New England

Hah! Really... whew. That’s lucky.


65 posted on 07/15/2009 3:18:19 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: don-o

The candle was visible clearly from 100 miles to the west. It seemed to arc to the north of east.


66 posted on 07/15/2009 3:20:08 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT 2006; now living north of Tampa Bay)
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To: George from New England

Man, was that ever close!


67 posted on 07/15/2009 3:21:18 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (I am not a spinner.)
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To: George from New England
The candle was visible clearly from 100 miles to the west. It seemed to arc to the north of east.

I saw it from MacDill once.

Figures that the first time in a month I don't drive out there to get a spot, they launch. I guess you can all blame me for the hold-ups then.

68 posted on 07/15/2009 3:32:17 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: Ramius

I love this board! Thank you!


69 posted on 07/15/2009 3:34:02 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine PFC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island - LC -6/4/09 - 29 Palms - Camp Pendleton 6/18)
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To: don-o

Weather channel babe said that there was some sort of debris marks along the spacecraft. Anyone have more info?


70 posted on 07/15/2009 5:10:52 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper
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To: winoneforthegipper

I do not have television, but back when I did, it seemed that Weather Channel was a moron magnet for talking heads. Maybe that changed. Maybe not.

(I did do a google to see if anything had been posted about such - empty)


71 posted on 07/15/2009 6:55:34 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine PFC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island - LC -6/4/09 - 29 Palms - Camp Pendleton 6/18)
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To: don-o

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293550/posts

they must have improved some!...lol


72 posted on 07/15/2009 7:02:43 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper
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To: winoneforthegipper
From Fox News:
Several pieces of foam insulation came off the external fuel tank during liftoff, and the shuttle was hit two or three times, said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's space operations chief. Some scuff marks were spotted on the belly, but that probably is coating loss and considered minor, he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532881,00.html
73 posted on 07/15/2009 8:13:17 PM PDT by Paul R. (We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
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To: Paul R.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532881,00.html


74 posted on 07/15/2009 8:14:19 PM PDT by Paul R. (We are in a break in an Ice Age. A brief break at that...)
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To: advertising guy

I think it’s called the gaseous oxygen vent hood, It seems to lead the boil off vapors away.


75 posted on 07/15/2009 8:59:16 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
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To: KevinDavis

Space shuttle damaged; severity unknown

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/national/article/SHUTGAT16_20090716-061401/280317/


76 posted on 07/16/2009 4:41:11 AM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
Sheppard Smith of Fox News just announced that the shuttle fleet has been grounded pending an investigation. Details to follow. Given that there is one shuttle in orbit, this doesn't make complete sense, but that was the announcement and probably applies to new launches.
77 posted on 07/16/2009 4:07:58 PM PDT by Truth29
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