STS-133 Shuttle Mission to the International Space Station Launches Thursday 21:50 GMT

Merlin5 · 24 Feb 2011 at 18:16

Arrival of Astrovan at Launchpad ETA 15 minutes.

Lol, skip that, they arrived

Berserker · 24 Feb 2011 at 18:17

I do wish us regular types could get photos like those. KSCVC is closed at night so you need press accreditation, or work there, or be there for a night launch and have a very long lens.

Mik3 · 24 Feb 2011 at 18:31

Looking foraward to this follow space nuts!

Metalface Mark · 24 Feb 2011 at 18:49

While we await launch, has anyone ever been to any of the autographica events that used to be on? I went one year, must be coming on for ten years ago now, and met Alan Bean, Dick Gordon, Walt Cunningham and Ed Mitchell, still got my signed prints from the day, and got a great autographed book of Al's drawings.

quickshot89 · 24 Feb 2011 at 18:51

any links for live stream?

lcg · 24 Feb 2011 at 18:54

quickshot89 said:
any links for live stream?

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163 (better quality)
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Merlin5 · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:01

You're better off with the low quality regular nasa stream. The higher quality one is buffering all the time and it's also streaming a few seconds behind the nasa one.

quickshot89 · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:03

thanks, shouldnt be too long as they are getting seated

lcg · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:10

Merlin5 said:
You're better off with the low quality regular nasa stream. The higher quality one is buffering all the time and it's also streaming a few seconds behind the nasa one.

Yeah, that's true. The NASA stream is also from Yahoo! Here's a direct link to it:

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080&segment=149773

oli356 · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:24

Noob question: What do I use to play it with using the .dll

wesley · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:30

vlc player

copy/paste the url to media menu - open network stream

Merlin5 · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:38

Check out these awesome hi-res pics and panoramics.

http://nasatech.net/

Here's one of the panoramics. Awesome.

http://nasatech.net/Discovery2Lt110131/

Kazz · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:41

Merlin5 said:
http://nasatech.net/Discovery2Lt110131/

Holy craparino, that's brilliant

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Cosimo · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:45

Merlin5 said:
Check out these awesome hi-res pics and panoramics.

http://nasatech.net/

Here's one of the panoramics. Awesome.

http://nasatech.net/Discovery2Lt110131/

Here another but not as good:

http://gigapan.org/gigapans/63782/

Marine Iguana · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:46

Mik3 said:
Looking foraward to this follow space nuts!

Have you got some space nuts!

Merlin5 said:
Check out these awesome hi-res pics and panoramics.

http://nasatech.net/

Here's one of the panoramics. Awesome.

http://nasatech.net/Discovery2Lt110131/

Nice

Merlin5 · 24 Feb 2011 at 19:51

They're great aren't they. Here's a real Thunderbirds one, with the scorched flame trench in view.

http://nasatech.net/PadATrench100921/

Kazz · 24 Feb 2011 at 20:04

Are there any other streams available or just the very low quality one and the buffering one?

Cosimo · 24 Feb 2011 at 20:17

Kazz said:
Are there any other streams available or just the very low quality one and the buffering one?

Here is another:

http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow

GJ02 · 24 Feb 2011 at 20:25

any hi res for vlc ?
cant get the dll to work again for some reason

bliss · 24 Feb 2011 at 20:27

simulatorman said:
Here is another:

http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow

Thanks for the link.