Space Shuttle Launch STS-120

[Rufus®]

Anyone thats interested, Discovery will be blasting off in a few hours:

Space Shuttle Mission STS-120

Space Shuttle: Discovery
Payload: Harmony Node 2
Targeted Launch Date: October 23
Launch Time: 11:38 a.m. EDT
Pad: 39A
Space Station Assembly Mission 10A

Launch is Wednesday October 24 12:38am AEST

NASA TV
http://www.nasa.gov/145590main_Digital_Media.asx

or

NASA TV

[greenfoam]

Excellent, I'll watch it not much chance it will actually take off is there? but you never know

[Rufus®]

Excellent, I'll watch it not much chance it will actually take off is there? but you never know

I think it will, they're all strapped in ready to go.

and it's actually due to launch at 1.38am, not 12.38am!! doh

[dijm8]

gotta say that was pretty amazing never seen it like that especially when looking down at earth from the space shuttle... thats the highlight of my day

[greenfoam]

Thanks for letting me know that was going to happen, I was impressed with the shed they have to put the shuttle on the rockets, 525? feet high roof and 8 acres of floor space:P. I used to think takeoff in a 747 was a dodgy experience (still do really), but 10,000 miles per hour sitting on a half a million gallons of hydrogen and still accelerating at 3 gs into space gets my respect for all those onboard :P

[Rufus®]

High Def footage of the launch

NASA - Multimedia - High Definition Video Gallery

v. cool.

[holdensupporter2005]

STS-122 Launch is planned for 4:31pm Thursday 6th December 2007 (US Time).

Friday 7th December 2007 @ 8:31am Australian Time.
NASA - Space Shuttle

You can watch it here:

NASA TV
http://www.nasa.gov/145590main_Digital_Media.asx

[holdensupporter2005]

STS-122 Launch postphoned till tommorow (Saturday 8th December 2007 @ 8:09am Australian Time)