What was the Hubble named after? The factory that built it?

Seeing this NASA stuff makes me feel like a kid again.

Maybe they will bump into Spacejesus.

re: #3 KenJen

Maybe they will run over Spacejesus.

Just a suggestion.

No Muslims were harmed in the making of this film.

///just covering the bases.

Beautiful launch !

That is so cool.

Every time I see one of these launches, I am reminded that I have always been proud of my country

yep, they're up here now

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What was the Hubble named after? The factory that built it?

American astronomer Edwin Hubble.

re: #3 KenJen

Maybe they will bump into Spacejesus.

you beat me with that comment.

re: #2 Guanxi88

Seeing this NASA stuff makes me feel like a kid again.

Even in the midst of world conflict and economic downturn, science is doable here in America.

It's been awhile since I last saw a live launch. Just amazing.

re: #12 badger1970

It's been awhile since I last saw a live launch. Just amazing.

All too soon such will be but memories.

I watched STS-123 launch from the NASA causeway.

still, to this day, the coolest thing I've ever seen ( and heard)

re: #5 SasquatchOnSteroids

No Muslims were harmed in the making of this film.

///just covering the bases.

Beautiful launch !

Actually, I think it was Muslims who invented space travel, even before Mo and the flying pony.

It was stolen from them by the evil Jooos, who then sold it to the Great Satan.
/

re: #15 MacDuff

Actually, I think it was Muslims who invented space travel, even before Mo and the flying pony.

It was stolen from them by the evil Jooos, who then sold it to the Great Satan.
/

Well, they did have those really cool flying carpets. Gots to get me one of those.

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What was the Hubble named after? The factory that built it?

Edwin Hubble

re: #14 Shug

I watched STS-123 launch from the NASA causeway.

still, to this day, the coolest thing I've ever seen ( and heard)

Didn't you also feel it?

re: #17 dhg4

Edwin Hubble

I like your link better than my Wiki link earlier, thank you.

re: #10 SpaceJesus

you beat me with that comment.

Am I going to get charged with a hate crime?

re: #16 Russkilitlover

Well, they did have those really cool flying carpets. Gots to get me one of those.

Yeah, I wonder why Mo just didn't just take the carpet; it seems that it would have been mich more comfortable!

USA is still a great country, despite the efforts of the "you know who's"

re: #18 FurryOldGuyJeans

yep

Don't know about those Orange suits. Keep expecting to see OJ pop in there somewhere...

re: #9 FurryOldGuyJeans

Oops. Of course y'all wouldn't get the joke. It's a later crowd.

From the overnight open thread

442 avanti5/11/2009 7:03:23 am PDT

Morning all. I almost tossed a shoe at the TV watching Fox TV just now. The "correspondents" were speculating as the why the space telescope was named Hubble. After a few seconds of head scratching, someone on the staff suggested it was named for the factory that built it. Ten minutes passed before someone corrected it to the astronomer, Edwin Hubble.

Pretty vapid bunch, no?

Suggestion

Hitch a few rail cars onto the space shuttle and take Congress for an extended space walk...no need to tether.

A scientist at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum brought over Hubble Telescope pictures to our office and explained amazing things learned from these pictures, though there was a problem with its lens, back in the early 1990s.

re: #22 Spider Mensch

USA is still a great country, despite the efforts of the "you know who's"

And it will remain a great country. We've survived worse stuff than this and this we will survive as well. The American people make poor choices at times, but ultimately we always tend to pull our heads out of our collective asses and come together when it really counts.

I remain (cautiously) optimistic.

re: #26 jorline

Ooh. Too German.

Got to wish the best of luck to the crew that's going up there to fix things. It's gonna be hard work, but I have faith they'll perform admirably. I'm looking forward to new images from the telescope; it's amazing how beautiful the cosmos is.

I remember in the sixties when I was in grade school, the teachers (nuns) would wheel an old black & white TV into the classroom when a launch was occurring. Loved it then and love it now.
I understand that they're going to film the actual Hubble repair spacewalks in 3D Imax for a future Imax movie. Anyone else know anything about that?

re: #29 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ooh. Too German.

lol...we can call them lab rats!

re: #9 FurryOldGuyJeans

American astronomer Edwin Hubble.

& Basketball Star Edwin Hubble

re: #29 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I might end up regretting that. Was actually doing some "Hedley Lamarr".

Muslim cleric accuses Israel of carnage, Pope walks out

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

You can always count on the Muslims to fart a good party?

re: #25 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oops. Of course y'all wouldn't get the joke. It's a later crowd.

From the overnight open thread

Pretty vapid bunch, no?

that's as bad as the CNN anchor last year asking one of the astronauts why they kept referring to 4 of the 7 shuttle astronauts as " rookies"
and was this some kind of hazing

and with a straight face the astronaut simply explained that they were called rookies since this was their first mission

since this is a space weekend with star trek and now the shuttle
I am posting this
vows all starfleet captains should take

All critical data and software will be backed up in off-line storage.

A random alien's claims about his/her/its race's cultural values and attitudes will be given no more credence than a random human's claims about human cultural values and attitudes.

My crew shall be trained in the fine arts of tactical combat, such as dispersing assets, walking point, advance guards, flank guards, rear guards, etc.

I will not throw infantry into close-quarter combat with creatures of leviathan stature, but shall turn such affairs over to the artillery crew.

If my ship is whisked to the far side of the galaxy, leaving us with a seventy-year journey home, and a super-being offers to take us home instantly in exchange for having his baby, I'll agree and ask what we can get for two babies.

If anyone beams down and their personal communicator drops carrier, all life forms within ten meters of the last known location shall be beamed directly to the brig. A large well-armed security detail will be waiting.

The people in charge of Sick Bay, Engineering, and R&D will not be the only people staffing those functions, nor shall they accompany away teams.

I will not ask "What does God need with a space ship?" and then order a torpedo strike. I will order the torpedo strike first, and ponder theology on the trip home.

My people will be assigned duties commensurate with their skills. I will not task pilots with leading a ground assault, infiltrating enemy camps, etc.

If I board a derelict ship, and it appears that the former crew and passengers all died in some horrible fashion, I will immediately leave the ship, destroy it, and toss the wreckage into the nearest stellar object.

If I am in red alert status and discover that it was a false alarm, I will stay in red alert for a while before standing down.

Anyone I imprison will be stripped, scanned, and given a prison uniform. This will prevent them from assembling weapons from pieces hidden in their regular clothes.

Any crew member who begins to act strangely will be immediately relieved of duty and confined to the sick bay, pending a complete screening to determine if their personality has been subverted.

I will not let the Whiz Kid conduct research aboard my ship. If he's got a theory that he's itching to test, I will deposit him on an uninhabited planet in friendly space, and make sure that I'm out of the system before he's done unpacking.

I will not depart the starbase unless my complement of Marines are on board.

I will hold repel-boarders drills on my ship. These drills will be held at random hours so that everyone learns what they're supposed to be doing, no matter what the circumstances.

My junior officers will be notified that Academy cadets cannot be field-commissioned, and should they come upon a ship crewed entirely by such, they will immediately take command and return them to where they can receive adult supervision.

I will never send the infantry down on missions that are better suited for orbital bombardment.

If the issued zap guns have "stun" and "kill" modes, they will be set to the former only when the user is about to fire at something that is wanted alive.

If my opponent can adapt to various forms of attack, rendering them useless, I will use some imagination and start attacking in as many radically different ways as possible.

My standing orders will allow the man I leave in charge of the bridge to raise shields and return fire if the ship is attacked while I am not on the bridge.

Tether the Toolbag !

re: #28 MacDuff

And it will remain a great country. We've survived worse stuff than this and this we will survive as well. The American people make poor choices at times, but ultimately we always tend to pull our heads out of our collective asses and come together when it really counts.

I remain (cautiously) optimistic.

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Please don't collectivize our rear ends. Enough already.

Individuals have to make these choices.

re: #25 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oops. Of course y'all wouldn't get the joke. It's a later crowd.

From the overnight open thread

Pretty vapid bunch, no?

Vapid doesn't even begin to describe what I think about ALL TV news talking heads. I don't want to get banned.

re: #8 spacejesus

yep, they're up here now

K. That was funny.

re: #38 SasquatchOnSteroids

Tether the Toolbag !

Here's where it is!

re: #27 alegrias

A scientist at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum brought over Hubble Telescope pictures to our office and explained amazing things learned from these pictures, though there was a problem with its lens, back in the early 1990s.

That was a huge scandal, the way the mirror was ground.

re: #1 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What was the Hubble named after? The factory that built it?

Edwin Hubble re: #9 FurryOldGuyJeans

American astronomer Edwin Hubble.

The Hubble Constant, allows us to measure the distances and age of the universe.

re: #41 Oh no...Sand People!

Hi!

re: #25 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oops. Of course y'all wouldn't get the joke. It's a later crowd.

From the overnight open thread

Pretty vapid bunch, no?

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Why weren't you watching this on the NASA channel, you rocket scientists!

re: #35 Nevergiveup

Muslim cleric accuses Israel of carnage, Pope walks out

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

You can always count on the Muslims to fart a good party?

Following the diatribe and before the meeting was officially over, the pope exited the premises. Army Radio reported that the pope shook Tamimi's hand before walking out.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

Well controversy I see! Maybe the Pope can do a Hilliary, that he didn't get the translation?

re: #35 Nevergiveup

Muslim cleric accuses Israel of carnage, Pope walks out

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

You can always count on the Muslims to fart a good party?

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But the Pope shook Tamimi the ranter's hand, first.

re: #45 doppelganglander

Hi!

Hey! Pick up the fam in an hour!

re: #48 alegrias

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But the Pope shook Tamimi the ranter's hand, first.

Yeah, I noticed that after I post the first article.

re: #35 Nevergiveup

Muslim cleric accuses Israel of carnage, Pope walks out

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

You can always count on the Muslims to fart a good party?

They're not interested in duologue; they're interested in having a venue for their vitriol. As for Benedict, Good on him!

re: #46 alegrias

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Why weren't you watching this on the NASA channel, you rocket scientists!

Maybe because my local cable station doesn't carry it?

re: #51 MacDuff

They're not interested in duologue; they're interested in having a venue for their vitriol. As for Benedict, Good on him!

Yeah except as The Jerusalem Post reports, the Pope shook his hand?

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

Not many people can make a claim like this:

After Hubble's discovery was published, Albert Einstein abandoned his work on the cosmological constant (which he had designed to allow for a static solution to his equations). He later termed this work his "greatest blunder" since the assumption of a static universe had prevented him from predicting the expanding universe. Einstein made a famous trip to Mount Wilson in 1931 to thank Hubble for providing the observational basis for modern cosmology. However, as a testament to Einstein's genius, the cosmological constant has actually come back in recent decades as a hypothesis for dark energy.

re: #47 Nevergiveup

Following the diatribe and before the meeting was officially over, the pope exited the premises. Army Radio reported that the pope shook Tamimi's hand before walking out.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

Well controversy I see! Maybe the Pope can do a Hilliary, that he didn't get the translation?

Benedict is one classy dude, really. Nice to see a world leader not willing to kiss Muslim ass for once.

I watched it live via NASA TV. I hate to be a killjoy but this is something I'd like to see in person on the ground especially at night if possible though I'd still enjoy a day launch. To me it was liken to watching fireworks on TV, it just isn't the same experience. This is on my list of things to do in life.

I hope everyone knows that my #1 was a joke.

re: #53 FurryOldGuyJeans

Maybe because my local cable station doesn't carry it?

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Understand.

(I enjoy the beautiful anchor people on Fox who appear to love America, so am not bothered they're not rocket scientists as their hearts are in the right place, in my opinion)

re: #54 Nevergiveup

Yeah except as The Jerusalem Post reports, the Pope shook his hand?

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

I think that is a classy gesture.

re: #56 FurryOldGuyJeans

Benedict is one classy dude, really. Nice to see a world leader not willing to kiss Muslim ass for once.

Yeah, but it bothers me he shook his hand?

re: #56 FurryOldGuyJeans

Benedict is one classy dude, really. Nice to see a world leader not willing to kiss Muslim ass for once.

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That particular ass, Mr. Tamimi, wasn't even ON the program. Some idiot allowed Tamimi to do an unscheduled verbal attack on Israel during a papal visit.

Heads ought to roll.

re: #61 Nevergiveup

Yeah, but it bothers me he shook his hand?

I actually find that one real classy gesture. A wonderfully diplomatic way to tell the Mullah(?) to fuck off.

re: #56 FurryOldGuyJeans

Benedict is one classy dude, really. Nice to see a world leader not willing to kiss Muslim ass for once.

He was seen mouthing the words "fracking corksocker" as he left the room.

re: #61 Nevergiveup

Yeah, but it bothers me he shook his hand?

It was supposed to be a conference on faith, and the Pope was acting appropriately.

re: #60 FurryOldGuyJeans

I think that is a classy gesture.

Maybe, but since I am not classy I would have spit on it or punched the SOB out. But that's just me.

re: #66 Nevergiveup

Maybe, but since I am not classy I would have spit on it or punched the SOB out. But that's just me.

Shaking an asshole's hand is a very classy and diplomatic way to tell the cocksucker to fuck off.

re: #59 alegrias

Just stupid. Sorry. Ron Burgundy should only be a movie character.

re: #66 Nevergiveup

Maybe, but since I am not classy I would have spit on it or punched the SOB out. But that's just me.

Well there is a couple plyoff hockey games on tonight.

re: #66 Nevergiveup

Maybe, but since I am not classy I would have spit on it or punched the SOB out. But that's just me.

Maybe it was a spit shake. Sneaky Pope.

re: #61 Nevergiveup

Yeah, but it bothers me he shook his hand?

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Me too. Did the Pope's translators accurately translate the unscheduled ranting idiot Tamimi's hate speech ?

Like when Pres. Obama sat listening to Daniel Ortega rant for 45 minutes against America at the Summit of the Americas last month. Someone on the White House team should say, hey, you & our allies are getting dissed, GET UP & WALK OUT NOW.

re: #67 FurryOldGuyJeans

Now dammit!? I just cleaned my words up, and there you go using them!

re: #54 Nevergiveup

Yeah except as The Jerusalem Post reports, the Pope shook his hand?

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

I can only say that he showed more class, than he was shown. I guess I would have preferred him to shout "asshole!" and then walk out, but I'll take what I can get.

If you have never Googled "hubble deep field" you should do so immediately

re: #59 alegrias

I don't watch TV news to look at good-looking airheads, I want news, straight up and undiluted.

I am trying to find that Far Side cartoon with the out-of-focus Hubble looking at space aliens...

re: #68 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Just stupid. Sorry. Ron Burgundy should only be a movie character.

I thought he was President of the United States.

re: #72 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Now dammit!? I just cleaned my words up, and there you go using them!

Just to demonstrate I ain't classy, but I sure do appreciate it when I see it.

BTW - In re: the press corp dinner. What bothered me the most was Obama's Motherf*cker joke. The man is a disgrace to the office.

Ambulance taking That Nazi Demjunjuck somewhere? I probably misspelled his name, but hell who cares.

hasn't pelosi de-funded NASA yet?

re: #74 jamgarr

If you have never Googled "hubble deep field" you should do so immediately

I try to not consciously support socialism or autocracy, thanks for the suggestion anyway.

re: #68 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Just stupid. Sorry. Ron Burgundy should only be a movie character.

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Sorry, don't get the Ron Burgundy reference.

No one forces me to watch Fox's attractive anchors, it is of my own free will!

re: #80 Nevergiveup

Ambulance taking That Nazi Demjunjuck somewhere? I probably misspelled his name, but hell who cares.

pat bucnananazi is not pleased

re: #79 jamgarr

BTW - In re: the press corp dinner. What bothered me the most was Obama's Motherf*cker joke. The man is a disgrace to the office.

I missed that one, What did he say?

re: #80 Nevergiveup

Ambulance taking That Nazi Demjunjuck somewhere? I probably misspelled his name, but hell who cares.

If I was in the back of that ambulance I would have said "Don't worry, it's onlya shower" and see waht his reaction was.

re: #81 _RememberTonyC

hasn't pelosi de-funded NASA yet?

she's a bit too busy these days...

re: #80 Nevergiveup

Ambulance taking That Nazi Demjunjuck somewhere? I probably misspelled his name, but hell who cares.

Hmmm. Do ambulances go to hell?

re: #82 FurryOldGuyJeans

I try to not consciously support socialism or autocracy, thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Lighten up, Francis.

re: #85 KenJen

I missed that one, What did he say?

A joke about Rahm not being used to adding "Day" to "Mother".

re: #87 brookly red

she's a bit too busy these days...

david feherty was unavailable for comment

[Link: www.politico.com...]

Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, Gates' top military adviser, will be named as deputy commander, a new position.

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

That little nugget worries me. Sounds like a political appointment to me?

re: #83 alegrias

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Sorry, don't get the Ron Burgundy reference.

No one forces me to watch Fox's attractive anchors, it is of my own free will!

Movie character...dumb as a sack of hammers. I can watch pretty without having my intelligence insulted. Ain't "Baywatch" on somewhere?

Thanks for posting the link, Charles. My boys had a lot of fun watching the launch.

re: #89 jamgarr

Lighten up, Francis.

Nope, you can't make me. ;)

re: #79 jamgarr

That was the funniest thing of the night. C'mon!

re: #95 FurryOldGuyJeans

Nope, you can't make me. ;)

What if I touch your stuff?

re: #49 Oh no...Sand People!

Hey! Pick up the fam in an hour!

That's great! I know you must be excited. Have a wonderful evening (or day, I guess).

"Shawshank Redemption" is on. Scene where Andy plays opera over the loudspeakers into the "yard". So beautiful.

re: #97 jamgarr

What if I touch your stuff?

i'l kill ya

re: #96 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That was the funniest thing of the night. C'mon!

Sorry - I don't want my President making those jokes. Leno, sure - Barack, not so much.

re: #83 alegrias

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Sorry, don't get the Ron Burgundy reference.

No one forces me to watch Fox's attractive anchors, it is of my own free will!

My favorite is Julie Bandaras; she looks even better in HD (if that's possible).

re: #92 Nevergiveup

Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, Gates' top military adviser, will be named as deputy commander, a new position.

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

That little nugget worries me. Sounds like a political appointment to me?

If the administration ever made an appointment that WASN'T an outright crass political one is when I would start to worry.

re: #81 _RememberTonyC

hasn't pelosi de-funded NASA yet?

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Dems are no doubt trying to figure out how to use NASA for propaganda photos--here's the shuttle over North Korea's dark skyline; here's the shuttle over Hugo Chavez' petroleum palace (hey, what's Joe Kennedy--Joe4Oil-- doing there in the picture?); here's the shuttle over Bashir al Assad's lovely palace where lately John Kerry, Ben Nelson and I stayed; etc.

re: #97 jamgarr

What if I touch your stuff?

What stuff? If you can find it you can touch it. ;)

re: #105 FurryOldGuyJeans

What stuff? If you can find it you can touch it. ;)

I said stuff not junk!

/I kid, I kid!

re: #93 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Movie character...dumb as a sack of hammers. I can watch pretty without having my intelligence insulted. Ain't "Baywatch" on somewhere?

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Sorry, perhaps confused you with someone here who was watching Fox News by choice when the shuttle went up.

re: #106 jamgarr

I said stuff not junk!

/I kid, I kid!

I wish I had even some junk, stuff would be real upscale. ;)

re: #107 alegrias

heh

re: #108 FurryOldGuyJeans

I wish I had even some junk, stuff would be real upscale. ;)

Look in your trunk

re: #110 jamgarr

Oh, no you didn't!?

I hope they have a great mission and safe return!

re: #110 jamgarr

Look in your trunk

Trunk? What the hell is a trunk?

re: #111 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oh, no you didn't!?

Oh, yes he did!

re: #31 Cheesehead

I remember in the sixties when I was in grade school, the teachers (nuns) would wheel an old black & white TV into the classroom when a launch was occurring. Loved it then and love it now.
I understand that they're going to film the actual Hubble repair spacewalks in 3D Imax for a future Imax movie. Anyone else know anything about that?

I remember seeing the Challenger disaster live in school. What stands out to me, even to this day, is the guy reading telemetry. At the beginning, he is reading height downrange distance data normally. After the explosion/breakup he continues reading for a good while, the downrange number not changing, and the altitude number decreasing. He of course is just looking his display/printout and not at a tv camera of the launch. After several seconds of this, he says something like "We have a malfunction" probably thinking his radar system was out of wack. This probably qualifies as the understatement of the year...

re: #113 FurryOldGuyJeans

Trunk? What the hell is a trunk?

Ask FBV

re: #99 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

"Shawshank Redemption" is on. Scene where Andy plays opera over the loudspeakers into the "yard". So beautiful.

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Sorry I spent money on that movie ONCE, knowing now what a leftist that one guy is. I could use those $10 bucks back now.

re: #113 FurryOldGuyJeans

Trunk? What the hell is a trunk?

Get thee to the Urban dictionary.

[Link: www.urbandictionary.com...]

re: #112 Sharmuta

I hope they have a great mission and safe return!

NASA is the one government agency that seems to exceed their mandate when it comes to equipment. Martian rovers still working, etc.

I can't wait for more Hubble pics, they are very awe-inspiring and humbling.

re: #118 buzzsawmonkey

Isn't "Baywatched" where Elizabeth Montgomery, as a superannuated lifeguard with magical powers, saves people from drowning?

Had to dig pretty deep for that one, eh? :)

re: #116 jamgarr

Ask FBV

Ask him what? ;)

new thread...Tamimi deserves censure.

re: #99 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

A terrific movie. Watched my DVD of it a few weeks ago. I still grin like an idiot when the authorities close in on the prison to arrest the warden and chief of guards.

re: #122 FurryOldGuyJeans

Ask him what? ;)

Oh, nevermind.

/E.Litella off

re: #119 SummerSong

Get thee to the Urban dictionary.

[Link: www.urbandictionary.com...]

I like Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK

OK, I've got to ask, Charles - HOW DID YOU GET THE NASA FEED ONTO THE PAGE?! MAJOR COOLNESS!

Anyone else love all the strange terminology. There speaking English but not quite English. Its kinda like listening to air traffic controllers yammer on in there weird language.

the hubble has been plagued with problems. first the lenses were not cut right.
i heard this is a dangerous mission. those people repairing the craft are handling
very sharp parts. also i heard and do not know for a fact, that another shuttle is
standing by in case there are problems. does any one know if that is true. jdk

re: #57 Idle Drifter

I watched it live via NASA TV. I hate to be a killjoy but this is something I'd like to see in person on the ground especially at night if possible though I'd still enjoy a day launch. To me it was liken to watching fireworks on TV, it just isn't the same experience. This is on my list of things to do in life.

I've seen a night launch. It's one of the Great Spectacles. It was an ISS supply run, so they were launching to the North and we didn't get the whole sound effects. But the light is absolutely tremendous. On ascent, it turns a 60-degree chunk of the sky daylight blue. Incredible. Glorious.

re: #129 tracon

Anyone else love all the strange terminology. There speaking English but not quite English. Its kinda like listening to air traffic controllers yammer on in there weird language.

I enjoy it, but it's not strange to me. I've been doing flight test for nearly thirty years.

re: #57 Idle Drifter

I live 15 miles away and it never gets old. Make plans to see it soon.

re: #133 Slymon

I hope they don't need STS 400 (for obvious safety reason of the crew and a purely selfish one), because the family and I are driving down from Ohio to see specifically the launch of STS127 on Sat 6/13 at 7:30 am.

I cannot wait to see the launch!