Posted on 07/14/2009 6:28:26 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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.
Orbit.
Go Endeavour!
I’m watching the lightning move into the area none too soon.
Right now, 6:17, would be a scrub.
Ah... that’s it... the Prandtl-Glauert singularity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prandtl-Glauert_singularity
I can never remember that name.
Hah! Really... whew. That’s lucky.
The candle was visible clearly from 100 miles to the west. It seemed to arc to the north of east.
Man, was that ever close!
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.
I love this board! Thank you!
Weather channel babe said that there was some sort of debris marks along the spacecraft. Anyone have more info?
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)
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
I think it’s called the gaseous oxygen vent hood, It seems to lead the boil off vapors away.
Space shuttle damaged; severity unknown
http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/national/article/SHUTGAT16_20090716-061401/280317/
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