Countdown space shuttle Endeavour! tonight

[crazyivan]

Night time space shuttle launch tonight! Space shuttle Endeavour minutes away from launch.Time 7:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kzZU54SZ0

[DYNAMITE]

Watching it right now!  Freak'n awesome! 

[DYNAMITE]

current speed 6000mph... alt 62 miles... woah 

[DYNAMITE]

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

[crazyivan]

Would of been cool to see that at cap canaveral. whew 16,000 mph   lol external fuel tank splashes into Indian Ocean 4 fourr!
good link Dynamite

[DYNAMITE]

that was awesome... a live feed as the shuttle separated from the main booster... amazing 

[Race]

        I was at the space center last weekend for the airshow. What a mad house!  Took us 2.5 hours to go 5 miles on Saturday. The really funny part was they said it was minor compared to a launch. As amazing as people think the Space Shuttle is they really would have laugh if they looked at the onboard electronics. The 5 CPUs are less powerful than some high end calculators. From a electronics standpoint the shuttle is a dinosaur. The mechanical engineering is still awe inspiring tho. The thing that got me was the hydrogen outlet pressure from the HPFTP turbine is around 6500 psi flowing 155lbs per second while the oxygen flows over 7,000 psi.

Race

[avionix]

Live on the other side of the state.  On most cloudless days and night, you can see the plume from where I live.   The best was a few years ago when I worked on a golf course.  We had a 5AM launch and was able to see it clearly for a good 15 min.  Really coll to see the boosters separate without binoculars and knowing that it is already that far out. 

Must get to a launch one day.

[MORAY37]

Live just under an hour south of the  pad.....never gets old seeing a match stick with 4 inches of flame behind it.  From 55 miles away. 

[crazyivan]

Played with model  rockets as a kid man. I lost 50% of them the bigger the motor and range! I stopped when I got a 2 stage mongoose. Hit 5000 ft never saw it again. Man and science making a big bang! One question, what is that camera made out of on the bellie of the space shuttle.  those guys and gals

[Dragon]

Live just under an hour south of the  pad.....never gets old seeing a match stick with 4 inches of flame behind it.  From 55 miles away. 

As long as the matchstick has no flare-ups, I agree.  I missed this one, but saw the live feed from the last night launch, called the whole family to the computer to watch cuz the kids and wife had never seen one.  Was way cool.  and be safe.

[moot]

Played with model  rockets as a kid man. I lost 50% of them the bigger the motor and range! I stopped when I got a 2 stage mongoose. Hit 5000 ft never saw it again. Man and science making a big bang! One question, what is that camera made out of on the bellie of the space shuttle.  those guys and gals

They might just hide it in the aerodynamics, so it wouldn't need to be plasma proof.  Sort of like the hole that they found in the tiles a few Shuttles back didn't turn out to be a problem.  That's if you mean the flashes that looked like cameras going off after tank separation.  The camera on the tank itself probably doesn't need any extraordinary shielding other than not adding aero drag on the way up.