Atlantis - shuttle final flight

[davek]

...or even Atlantis!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14076454

Less than 20 minutes to go if clear weather.

 

[chicoazul]

Boss place that.

 

[davek]

Cape Canaveral or Atlantis?

 

[chicoazul]

The former. I'm still looking for the latter but not much luck.

 

[davek]

This is your NASA update:

lift off will now be in T-minus 37 minutes and counting. I say again, T-minus 37 minutes and counting.

Over.

 

[davek]

9 minutes - looking good for lift off.

 

[best little spaniard]

30 seconds...

 

[davek]

30 seconds...

...and stopped!

 

[best little spaniard]

Oh, the clock stopped

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

 

[best little spaniard]

ON AGAIN!

 

[EFCNIK]

Its taken off!

 

[davek]

5,500 MPH.

 

[EFCNIK]

5,500 MPH.

Pfft. Its well slow.

 

[davek]

4 miles per second now.

 

[Baines' left foot]

6,500 MPH.

Damn.

EDIT: Now 12,000 MPH.