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Author Topic: Shuttle is go for launch! Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-04-2006 01:25 PM                     Its on both C-Span and NASA TV. If this launch doesn't go right it could very well be the last time a shuttle launch is attempted... Keep your fingers crossed! Mark  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-04-2006 01:50 PM                     I think it went well  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-04-2006 02:06 PM                     That was awsome! The camera view from the external tank was amazing.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 07-04-2006 02:44 PM                       I heard on the radio today they had some problems with a piece of isolation that had fallen off from the shuttle. Did they manage to fix that, or are they taking a chance? Thomas  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-04-2006 07:02 PM                        Aw man, I was hoping for no more shuttle launches! Hopefully this will be the last one. The shuttle is obsolete and severely outdated. Get your ass to Mars!  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-04-2006 07:20 PM                    All of those NASA cameras are HD (except the ones mounted on the ET). HD Net carried it live, and then replayed it about six times from different angles. It was awesome to see.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-04-2006 07:31 PM                     Don't they have a digital shuttle now? Steve  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-04-2006 07:53 PM                     Its been digital from day one... with the last upgrades its a more modern digital now. Mark  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-04-2006 08:24 PM                  YAWN... WTF cares about ANOTHER shuttle launch? How B-O-R-I-N-G...both this thread and the shuttle launch! NASA NEEDS to move into the 21st Century like Joe alluded to!  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-04-2006 11:38 PM                        Can anyone make a list of the historical breakthru's that NASA has provided over the last 20 years? All that sticks out to me is sucking BILLIONS of dollars out of economy and having, what, four shuttles blow up?  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 07-04-2006 11:53 PM                        quote: Jason Black Can anyone make a list of the historical breakthru's that NASA has provided over the last 20 years It made a fan out of me, thus last time I went thru Huntsville Alabama, I spent amost $100 in their gift shop  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-04-2006 11:55 PM                     Ben Affleck was the bomb in Armageddon!  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-05-2006 12:34 AM                     When I lived in St. augustine, I saw a couple of night launches. Very cool! I could see them from my back yard. If I didn't know what it was, it would freak me out though. We were a few hours away, but we were in the flight path.  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 07-05-2006 01:08 AM                        Well, they aren't just going up there and playing cards all day. Actually, alot has come from that. Various medical advancements, from findoing out how the body works in space, it sheds some light on how it works here. Crystals, semiconductors, or both. If we hadn't gone to space, we wouldn't have IC (computer chips), or at least not ones as finite and complex as the modern computers have. The hydrogen fuel cell was created for the gemini, and apollo programs, though I do find it kinda odd that it still hasn't been commecrialized, oil company conpiracy? Don't know. New plastics, new metals, or I should say, honeycombed carbon, and fiberous. But MOST of what we got from the space program wasn't singular inventions, but more like BASF. "We don't make the product you buy, we make it better." The number of refinments to existing technoligies is vast. However, I also agree that the shuttle fleet is aging and needs to be replaced with new and hopefully more reliable ships. The current ones need to be fixed untill the new ones come out, but don't delay the new ones just because the old ones work. And yes, NASA, take us to mars! We wen't to the moon in the 60's, and haven't gone anywhere new since. America, the world, needs a new frontier. Send some regular lunar missions too. I'd love to see a Saturn V, or it's more modern equvalent launch. That'd be so awesome, I heard its like nothing else, makes the shuttles seem like bottle rockets. I saw Apollo 13 when it was in theatres, and own the collectors DVD now, I remember feeling the awe and power, my hair stood on end and I could barely stay seated.  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 07-05-2006 02:02 AM                        and remember... The Temperpedic bed was developed by NASA scientist!! If I was ever offered to go up on a space mission, knowning that I had a 50/50 chance of not making it back to earth alive, I would take it in a heartbeat.  |  IP: Logged

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