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[MARKUSPRIME]

I love showing off raw American power. :)

[Political Junkie Too]

Ooh.. my favorite TV show is coming back on.

NASA TV live images of Earth from space.

I love leaving my TV on the NASA channel. It's like a moving portrait of Earth.

My local Comcast switches from local public access city meetings to NASA TV in the evenings when there is a mission. Otherwise, I go to NASA TV streaming video on my computer. It's a minute behind the TV.

-PJ

[Las Vegas Dave]

HDTV PING LIST

HDNet to Air Atlantis Shuttle Launch

Network to air spectacular high-definition coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 8

DALLAS (May 31, 2007) - HDNet will once again put viewers right on the launch pad with exclusive high-definition coverage of the planned liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis, set for 7:34 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 8. The network’s coverage will begin at 6:00 p.m. EDT.

STS-117 will be the 21st U.S. mission to the International Space Station. The flight will deliver and attach the second and third starboard truss segments to the station-the Integrated Truss Structure S3/S4 and associated set of power-generating solar arrays.

“In continuing our partnership with NASA, HDNet is excited to bring our viewers the latest installment in the history of the Space Shuttle Program,” said Mark Cuban, president and co-founder of HDNet. “Plus, our coverage makes you feel like you’re standing right at the launch pad - making this historical coverage even more spectacular.”

HDNet World Report Correspondent Greg Dobbs and former shuttle astronaut Charles “Sam” Gemar will again anchor live coverage from the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

HDNet’s exclusive HD partnership with NASA allows the network exceptional access to the shuttle and its astronauts, including coverage of the crew’s prelaunch preparations such as the astronauts getting into their vacuum suits, moving into the orbiter and making their final preparations before liftoff.

In addition, HDNet’s coverage will include interviews with the NASA astronauts and shuttle workers. Dobbs will present an in-depth conversation with the STS-117 astronauts as they talk about their families, fears, inspirations, and ambitions. He will also speak with a NASA shuttle engineer who explains just what it took to fix an external fuel tank that initially didn’t look fixable.

For this launch, HDNet will deploy a special CANON DIGISUPER 86II TELE xs (2322mm) lens for a view from the roof of the 525-foot tall Vehicle Assembly Building. This camera will be used extensively for launch and debris analysis, something that NASA will undoubtedly be watching with a close eye.

[airborne]

I'm watching it live. All systems are 'GO' at this time.

[NonValueAdded]

what’s the scoop on TALS weather?

[doug from upland]

I saw one on vacation in Florida 4 or 5 years ago. Awesome sight, noise, and vibration.

[NonValueAdded]

NVA is go

[doug from upland]

[Nachoman]

Its been ages since I saw a lauch. Thanks for the thread and the heads-up. Its a beautiful sight.

[Chi-townChief]

Always amazing!!!

[glock rocks]

Thanks for the thread! Great launch.

[yield 2 the right]

I saw the Space Shuttle Atlantis Liftoff from a Lowe’s parking lot in Jacksonville Fla. About 140(give or take 10 miles) miles due north and a bit west of the launch site...BTW I was with my sis and Bro and his kid(a girl age of 8) going to drive-thru at a nearby Wendy’s and just happened to look at my watch and remembered that the time for liftoff was a few minutes away, and told my sis to drive to a look out spot facing to the south and a bit to the east.......We looked at the contrails and the flames of the shuttle and its rockets and the view as as good as we hoped for.....

[Issaquahking]

What an awesome country we live in! Where else, for that matter, who else, has the strength of their nation, to show the world something this great? Watched the whole thing on FOX, and realized that even live I was watching history in the time gap of real time (By the time they said 50 miles, at that second, the time delay of the signal getting to my house must have seen the Shuttle at least at 62 miles)


After 8 minutes, they were way over blasting at 100 miles a minute, at what speed? Somewhere over 14,000miles an hour

[Alas Babylon!]

Just got back from Cocoa Beach to our hotel in Orlando. I’ve been working the Microsoft convention there while my family went to the theme parks.

We saw the whole launch. Awesome!!!!!! So short, but an experience of a lifetime.

[sig226]

Nobody at CVS in Titusville to develop my film. Nertz. Photos will be up tomorrow.

I didn’t realize so many people are so close to Titusville. We should FReep the next one.

[Political Junkie Too]

Did I just hear the astronauts report that they can't find any eating utensils in the food lockers? Did TSA confiscate all the knives and forks?

-PJ

[Eric Blair 2084]

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Pics:

This is what you see at an evening launch. The shadow is from the plume.
The photo is not altered.