Anyone else watching? I'm recording it...it's pretty cool, but looks scary as hell. It's taking them forever to get in space.
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hope it all goes well.

TheFrog said:

so do I I remember Columbia going down
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External tank just separated.
Great perspective from the mounted camera.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

Is the camera crappy or.....?

unlucky7 said:

I'm no camera expert but crappy or no, it's a unique point of view.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

yeah it is

theAudience said:

Another useless sticky.

JoeyMFinCoco said:

Be nice

JoeyMFinCoco said:

You want to take this out side....okay then I suggest you close it if you know what's good for you.

Come on people reply to my awesome thread, someone...please...

there were pieces parts fallin off ?

Mach said:

yeah, , but I know everything will be ok.

Why is this shit a sticky? i guess at least there's anAussie on board this time.

NASA don't seem to be fully sure what it was that fell off.

in case anyone missed it, there's a story, plus link to a video of the bits falling off here (for the video, go to the top right hand corner and click on the link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...19847.stm#

story at bbc news on this:

"Nasa is investigating two cases of apparent debris seen falling from the space shuttle Discovery as it blasted off for Earth orbit.

The events were captured in onboard video and the agency says it now needs to consider their significance.

In one case, a heatshield tile seems to have been affected on the underside of the shuttle. Discovery's astronauts are to use a 15m-long robotic arm to inspect the orbiter's exterior. The arm is equipped with sensor and camera attachments. A full sweep of the shuttle's key surfaces will take several hours. It appears the tip of the shuttle's external fuel tank also hit a bird as it launched from Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday.

John Shannon, STS-114 mission operations representative, pointed out video frames apparently showing a piece of heatshield tile breaking off from the underside of the shuttle.This has left a one-and-a-half inch white spot near the nose landing-gear doors.

"We're very interested in that," he told reporters. "That's something we're going to get better pictures of on flight-day three." Mr Shannon said it could simply be that part of the black covering on the orbiter's underside was damaged exposing the heatshield tile. But he added that it was equally possible the tile itself had been dented or sheared.

The missions operations representative also showed journalists video footage of a dark object falling from the external tank. Experts cannot yet determine its size, but it did not appear to hit the shuttle, they said.

News outlets had reported details of this piece of debris falling off the tank earlier in the day. Tuesday's successful launch was Nasa's second go at a lift-off in the current launch window.An earlier attempt on 13 July had to be scrubbed because of the failure of a fuel sensor; but the problem did not recur and the countdown proceeded without interruption.

Nasa says it has learnt the safety lessons of the Columbia disaster, which cost the lives of seven astronauts, and has made this the most scrutinised shuttle flight ever. Columbia broke up as it attempted to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.Super-heated gases entered a hole punched in the wing during take-off by a suitcase-sized chunk of foam from the external tank, tearing the vehicle apart.

Nasa had positioned more than 100 cameras, both on the ground and in the air, to capture as much detail as possible on Discovery's ascent into orbit. Discovery will take parts and supplies to the ISS and test new safety features such as a repair-kit for heatshield tiles and a 15m-long robotic arm that will inspect the shuttle for damage in orbit.

Discovery is due to touch down at Kennedy Space Center on 7 August at 0546 EDT (0946 GMT; 1046 BST)."

http://news.bbc.co.uk

it's a bird...it's a plane ...

http://news.yahoo.com/new...1907262158

TheFrog said:

Thanks Frog...


well, I hope everything is ok when they come back, I guess they can never make it 100% or 85% safe. It's a little ridiculous, I'm probably going to record it and watch it after they land.

They showed a bird at the very tip, I guess it got hit, but they don't know if it caused the tile to fall off.

oh, my thread isn't good enough for a sticky, so it was taken off.