Posted on 06/27/2006 7:34:43 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
Since this launch is just after sunset, weather permitting and no scubs, it will be visable over a wide area, best views of powered stage of launch, Southern Nevada, Arizona, southeastern California.
Cheer the Delta IV on! her first west coast flight with a secret payload that are the eyes and ears of our nations defense in the high frontier. Another bird to watch the bad guys.
Updates here..... http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d317/status.html
delay time on this feed?
No idea..
im going outside now
I'm heading outside..see y'all on the other side
Going full screen - bbl
I have a wireless setup, I guess I could go upstairs and hope we get lucky but I doubt it from here with all the clouds.. :-}
0330 GMT (11:30 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T-minus 3 minutes and counting. The first stage liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen systems have been secured.
0329 GMT (11:29 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T-minus 4 minutes and counting. Vehicle ordnance is being armed.
It's Boeing, not government.
0332 GMT (11:32 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T-minus 22 seconds. The steering system for the twin solid rocket motor nozzles has been activated.
0332 GMT (11:32 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T-minus 30 seconds. Green board. All systems remain "go" for launch.
Awesome.
Delta 4 .. Godspeed .. great liftoff!!
0334 GMT (11:34 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T+plus 1 minute, 58 seconds. Solid motor separation! The spent boosters have been shed from the first stage. Delta 4 continues powering its way toward space on the thrust generated by the RS-68 main engine.
0334 GMT (11:34 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T+plus 1 minute, 39 seconds. The twin solid rocket boosters have burned out of their propellant. Standing by for jettison.
0334 GMT (11:34 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T+plus 60 seconds. Now passing through the region of maximum aerodynamic pressure.
0333 GMT (11:33 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T+plus 50 seconds. The launcher has broken the sound barrier.
0333 GMT (11:33 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T+plus 30 seconds. The Delta 4 rocket is manuevering on course with the main engine is firing at full throttle and the two strap-on boosters are giving a powerful extra kick.
0333 GMT (11:33 p.m. EDT Tues.)
LIFTOFF! Liftoff of the Boeing Delta 4 rocket, beginning a new era for space launches from America's West Coast. And the vehicle has cleared the tower!
0332 GMT (11:32 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T-minus 12 seconds. Residual hydrogen burnoff ignitors have been fired beneath the main engine.
Beautiful........... Oh say can you see ... God bless America.
0336 GMT (11:36 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T+plus 3 minutes. The Delta is flying smoothly on its southward trajectory from California.
0335 GMT (11:35 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T+plus 2 minutes, 15 seconds. Good chamber pressure reported on the main engine.
Cool
and in a few days..
Discovery Set for July 1 Launch
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts-121_front/index.html
The Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew are set to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 3:49 p.m. EDT on Saturday, July 1.
How lucky I was to stumble into this thread. I love spaceflight. And this website. Hey! I am a poet!
What a gorgeous simulation picture ... with the blue light at the tail.
man that was fast, I got a couple of pic, not sure just how they turned out..
We SAW IT!!!!!!!
It was not nearly as dramatic as some I've seen...I'm not even going to bother putting the pic up that I took...but we SAW it!!
Thanks for putting that link up, Star!!!
Great ... as long as you know it .. ;)
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