Tank separation complete.
STS-134 Shuttle Mission to the International Space Station Launches Monday 16th @ 13:56 BST
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Soldato
I took my phone off the hook
Wish i had that kind of foresight, lulled into a false sense of quitness as no one had called for a while!
Soldato
That was amazing, brought a tear to my eye. Thanks simulatorman, were it not for you i may well have missed it.
What a beautiful launch! 
Wish i had that kind of foresight, lulled into a false sense of quitness as no one had called for a while!
You can guarantee someone will call and start whining down the phone spoiling the launch for you
Better to be safe than sorry
The launch for those that missed it:
Soldato
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...
Soldato
You can guarantee someone will call and start whining down the phone spoiling the launch for you
Better to be safe than sorry
Yep, it's typical!
Oh well, will have to enjoy the video... it's not quite the same though
Thanks buddy
Soldato
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.
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.
Soldato
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
Soldato
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.
Soldato
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.
Of course we can damn well complain!
And just for the record, that's the first launch i've seen live and my first A Level exam is on Wednesday
Soldato
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.
makes me so sad.
Soldato
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...
Does NASA use intel cpus for al their systems, ground control and onboard the shuttle and ISS, or do they build their own processors?
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
I've already posted the first one. More will be appearing in the few hours/days. Keep a watch for them here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAKennedy
http://www.youtube.com/NASATelevision