Comments on: Shuttle launch live Twittering

By: KLA2

KLA2 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:04:41 +0000

Well done. “Godspeed”, and a landing y’all walk away from.

By: Dale Basler

Dale Basler — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:02:22 +0000

I love the t minus twitter! Keep it up.

By: PsyberDave

PsyberDave — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:37:25 +0000

I saw the launch live and in person last night. My wife and I were about 8 miles from the launch pad with a straight line of sight. Spectacular as always.

What you don’t get on TV or a video is the roar of the rocket engines. It just isn’t possible to reproduce that bass such as it is experienced standing right there. It is like a long, continuous thunder. And the glow of the rocket exhaust is somewhat lost in pictures too. It is an exeptionally bright fire.

I encourage everyone here to make the trip out to experience it for yourself at least once.

By: L Ron Hubbub

L Ron Hubbub — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:36:52 +0000

But was it right on time?

By: Fred O Fenua

Fred O Fenua — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:35:53 +0000

So nice, I sow the shuttle launch here in my office in french polynesia at 12:36 loc (=Hawaii time) on Nasa-Tv, in real time ! Incredible, always very exciting !

They build our future

Fred

Excuse for my english

By: clara

clara — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:35:35 +0000

Thanks for the Twitter updates! I wasn’t able to watch the launch (nowhere near a TV and work summoned me away from my office), but I was able to visualize it in my mind. Now I just gotta get myself over there to watch a launch in person before the shuttles are retired.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:35:01 +0000

I am an airline pilot and subscribe to your twitter feed. While in line for takeoff today, and with no access to the news, I was able to keep up to the second with your twitter coverage. It was a very stimulating way to stay informed! My first officer didn’t know who was texting me so much or how I knew so much about the shuttle launch.
Thanks!

By: DenverAstro

DenverAstro — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:42:01 +0000

I watched the launch on the local news here in Denver and it brought tears to my eyes. Why does it always do that when I see a perfect launch? I feel like such a wuss. In any case, it was a beautiful sight for sure. I really love the STS system and will be sorry to see it retired. I feel like we are going backward in technology with what I call, “Apollo 2, The Next Generation”. I figured by now we would be using PanAM space planes ala 2001 ASO.
Oh, I know all the arguments for going back to a cheaper tried and true design with updated avionics, computers and such but I want the Enterprise, I want to see us go boldly where noone has gone before….
I wanna be able to carry a damn phaser!
Sigh

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:20:49 +0000

“Saw it with my own eyes from just across the Indian River. Didnâ€™t realise the flame was so Orange.” Thanks for sharing that real-time-natural vision Terry. Phil wants not only to see another Launch, he want’s to be on one. Can you blame anyone for having cosmic wishes?

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:52:44 +0000

Saw it with my own eyes from just across the Indian River. Didn’t realise the flame was so Orange.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:51:24 +0000

I really appreciate the Twitter updates. Even though I missed this launch because I was picking up my daughter from after school, it’s fun to feel like you’re watching it “with” someone, and when I do miss it, I can pretend like I was there by reading them off the web page.

By: tomdoerr

tomdoerr — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:50:28 +0000

Thanks for the updates on Twitter Phil! Don’t stop! )

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:42:35 +0000

Man, I’ve never paid attention to the velocity graphic during a launch before (it’s possible I’ve never seen it, this was the first time I’ve watched it on CNN). I got all disappointed when it hit about 2900 mph because I was waiting for Mach 5 (sea level, because I can’t remember standard temperature @ that altitude), until I realized it was just the delay until the next burn

By: Wilson

Wilson — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:34:29 +0000

I really enjoyed the Twitter updates. I was coming into town (Melbourne) by train at the time of the launch, so your updates we really cool. Thanks!

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:32:36 +0000

Cool! Glad ya’ll liked it.

I wonder if I’ll get to see another Shuttle launch before they retire it. I saw one in ’96, when they launched “my” camera. It was incredible.

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:28:55 +0000

Think I may have seen it! About 6 minutes after launch, moving South to Northeast about 30 degrees above the horizon, it disappeared behind a cloud just a few seconds before MECO.

I’m in Lexington Mass, so it should have been moving generally NE paralleling the the east coast at that time, so it was in the right general area and moving in the right direction.

I saw one previous shuttle launch, at about 1AM in a high-inclination orbit, from the same place. I don’t remember which flight, it was probably 15-20 years ago. On that launch it was obvious I was looking at the right thing.

I tried to get its ground-track from but it locked up Safari.

This time, it is a similar object moving through the sky at a similar rate, place, and direction. Or maybe it was just a plane. Or a bird. Definitely not a frog.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:04:43 +0000

Godspeed Endeavour.

This launch was really cool for me personally, but I can’t tell you about it. It’s a secret.

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:02:58 +0000

Phil: Enjoyed the twittering, even if it did look a bit familiar: http://twitter.com/jimthompson

Next time I’ll just kick back and let YOU take it.

By: r3v

r3v — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:01:53 +0000

Love the shuttle twitter updates, Phil. Keep it up.

By: Kevin Railsback

Kevin Railsback — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:58:16 +0000

Love it, Phil!

By: Lukas

Lukas — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:55:17 +0000

Saw the launch live on Sunrise, an Australian morning TV show.

Good stuff.

By: Lyle in Dallas

Lyle in Dallas — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:54:19 +0000

Thanks for the twitter updates! I had forgotten to tune in the launch and your updates reminded me.

It was good watching the feed while you twittered the event.

Thanks!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:53:57 +0000

Just watched the launch on HDNet. Watching in 1080 is very cool! Nice job on the Twitter. I have a question for anyone that night know. Just after main tank sep, there was a trail of something behind the shuttle that reminded me of an Aurora. What is it? What causes it?

Thanks in advance.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:53:00 +0000

I like it!

By: GreyDuck

GreyDuck — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:52:57 +0000

It just never stops being cool, does it?