shuttle launch coolness

[runonmoonlight]

If anyone's interested, the shuttle launch tonight (hopefully, weather permitting) -- is being broadcasted off of the Nasa website: Here. It's supposed to take off in about an hour (9:30 EST I beleive).

:)

Comments

[juleyah]

I AM SO PSYCHED!!!

First Swede in space!

(Swedish media is prrreeeetttyyy excited about this..)
And there are launch parties all over! :p

[runonmoonlight]

Replying here as well =P

Me too!

However it's just because I'm a geek, I like blowing stuff up, lighting things on fire, making medievel weapons (mwahaha), and generally. That. kind of thing. Yep. Also I'm an astronomy nerd, so there's that too.

[juleyah]

actually, the estimated launch time is 9:35 pm now.

[runonmoonlight]

lol, seriously I have no clue. I'm watching and technically it says like -20:00, and it's 8:30. Except they just had a 10 minute hold on the countdown.

Why is there a hold on a countdown? Why not just add ten minutes to it?

I edited the post accordingly anyways =P

[juleyah]

Countdown 101 - http://www.nasa.gov/lb/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/countdown101.html

[juleyah]

And they say the T-9 hold is 45 minutes in this case.

:) WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[runonmoonlight]

Yeah, the link I posted up top, goes to a page where you can watch everything, which they occasionally say what the countdown is at/showing the countdown clock. With interviews and the whatnot, but mainly just what's going on, and hearing them doing checks and the whatnot over the radio.