STS-134 Shuttle Mission to the International Space Station Launches Monday 16th @ 13:56 BST

Jph said:
Wish i had that kind of foresight, lulled into a false sense of quitness as no one had called for a while! :(
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You can guarantee someone will call and start whining down the phone spoiling the launch for you :p

Better to be safe than sorry
 
I was doing my A levels when the first Shuttle went up, and it's really sad to be watching them winding down.

But I guess as I'm in favour of radically sorting out the debt problems we have in the West I can't really complain if manned spaceflight gets cut back radically. Still, this is truly inspirational stuff at the edges of human potential, and there's not much else which can really stir your imagination in the same way.

Or make you hold your breath for two minutes. :-)
 
Will we get all these launch replays on youtube? The NasaTV stream was great but it cut from a camera the moment before it went into the clouds, one of the best parts ;)
 
Spook187 said:
what sort of spec are we looking at for the onboard computers and at houston.
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Old stuff I think, no idea really of specs, but I've hear onboard memory after being upgraded is around 1MB, yep megabyte.

TBH the computers don't need to be powerful, they just need to crunch numbers and to be reliable in space.
 
Andrew_McP said:
I was doing my A levels when the first Shuttle went up, and it's really sad to be watching them winding down.

But I guess as I'm in favour of radically sorting out the debt problems we have in the West I can't really complain if manned spaceflight gets cut back radically. Still, this is truly inspirational stuff at the edges of human potential, and there's not much else which can really stir your imagination in the same way.

Or make you hold your breath for two minutes. :-)
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Of course we can damn well complain!

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And just for the record, that's the first launch i've seen live and my first A Level exam is on Wednesday :)
 
We'd have people on Mars and maybe capturing asteroids for materials if the military budget of the world was actually spent on R&D :( makes me so sad.
 
Superewza said:
They're not running Windows, we can assume that much ;)

No, didn't NASA avoid switching to i486 because of an unacceptable number of computing errors. Not sure what happened since then...
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Does NASA use intel cpus for al their systems, ground control and onboard the shuttle and ISS, or do they build their own processors?
 
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