Space Shuttle Launch

[AliceApocalypse]

NASA is launching Discovery's last flight today at 4:50pm EST.  You can watch it live here:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=65911701

A robot is on this flight to the ISS

My bad, use this one:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[Vulhala]

How close do you live to it Alice?

[AliceApocalypse]

From home close enough to see the fireball, but today a group of us from work can get real close. 

Rumor has it a local company is trying to buy a shuttle and make commercial/private sector flights...sweet!  Might just get to ride on one of these babies yet 

[Vulhala]

Haha, rather you than me!

And I'd love to go to a launch. I read somewhere that when the Apollo missions blasted off you could feel the ground shake for miles around.

RAW POWAH!!!!

[Vulhala]

God I love the Internet. Someone filmed the launch from a passenger plane. YouTube is my new hero.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM#ws

[AliceApocalypse]

Wow, good find!  She was a beautiful sight from across the river, hopefully I won't forget when she comes back in.  There are two sonic booms, it sounds like a bus falls through the roof.  Kinda scary if you forget it's the shuttle lol.