Posted on 05/30/2020 9:40:24 AM PDT by cll
Crew ingress in progress.
Second time is the charm.
The hell with bad news. Onward, forward, skyward and spaceward!
Godspeed Bob and Dough!
And all ya'alls, take the red pill.
Praying for good weather, crew safety and a successful mission.
Yeah, it’s pretty cringe. I would rather hear the engineers talk to the astronauts.
Inside 30 minutes.
How about qualifications?
-PJ
Looks like its a GO!! God Bless these brave astronauts God Bless them on their journey stay safe
Remembering the Apollo-era network broadcasts. All men in business suits. Any shots of Canaveral Launch Control or Space center Houston were showing men with close-cropped hair, white shirts, and black ties. Any engineering or science types were in suits, and no women.
What a difference. In all honesty, I find it a bit refreshing. Getting a science explanation from a cute blond in a t-shirt and jeans is going to (hopefully) get the younger generation interested in space. That’s something we need. Some crew-cut-wearing guy in a suit and tie ain’t gonna get the attention of today’s young people. Just my opinion.
-PJ
New administration. NEVER AGAIN.
That must have been really cool. I’m glad that I am old enough to remember Apollo. Like many kids of that era I suppose, I had a model of the Saturn V that I built. My parents also let me stay home from school to watch the launches that occurred on school days. I also remember watching Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the moon, on our black and white TV, but I was only six years old then so my memory is limited. I can still picture it, though.
Exactly. I watched those 1960s space launches as a boy and figured by now, space travel would be a routine event and even tourists would be going to the moon for lunch, a corned beef sandwich while watching the Earth spin around, then be back on Earth for dinner.
When the launch last week was scrubbed for clouds, well that reminded me of back in the 1960s.
GodSpeed!
Is President Trump there? Haven’t heard his name at all.
They’d said he was going to be there, as well as Vice President Pence.
We’re supposed to be in flying cars as well. Don’t believe everything ya hear and read. Spaceflight is really difficult and very dangerous. Nothing is routine, even 50 years after the Apollo missions.
I am definitely enjoying watching this. Seeing the spacecraft inside and out and even listening to the commentary. Children across America should be watching it. They are doing distance-learning and should’ve been advised by their schools that it was taking place ... first on Wednesday and now today. I wonder how many even knew it was happening.
Pretty sure I saw a tweet of his saying he’s looking forward to going there again
Q: Who decided to stop flying shuttles?
A: President George W. Bush made the decision in 2004. He wanted astronauts to go back to the moon, and eventually to Mars. For NASA to afford to build a new spaceship to reach those goals, it had to stop spending about $4 billion a year on the shuttle program.
https://phys.org/news/2011-05-space-shuttle-fleet.html
Man, I haven’t been this excited since the last Shuttle launch.
Over 2,600,000 watching on Youtube alone.
It’ll go to 3 million by launch time on just this one feed.
10 minutes.
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