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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
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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.
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posted on
07/15/2009 3:14:12 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: tet68
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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.)
To: Ramius
I’m watching the lightning move into the area none too soon.
Right now, 6:17, would be a scrub.
To: Ramius
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posted on
07/15/2009 3:17:37 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: George from New England
Hah! Really... whew. That’s lucky.
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posted on
07/15/2009 3:18:19 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
To: don-o
The candle was visible clearly from 100 miles to the west. It seemed to arc to the north of east.
To: George from New England
Man, was that ever close!
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.
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posted on
07/15/2009 3:32:17 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
To: Ramius
I love this board! Thank you!
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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)
To: don-o
Weather channel babe said that there was some sort of debris marks along the spacecraft. Anyone have more info?
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)
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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)
To: don-o
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
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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...)
To: Paul R.
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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...)
To: advertising guy
I think it’s called the gaseous oxygen vent hood, It seems to lead the boil off vapors away.
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posted on
07/15/2009 8:59:16 PM PDT
by
Not now, Not ever!
(The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
To: KevinDavis
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.
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posted on
07/16/2009 4:07:58 PM PDT
by
Truth29
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