The Space Shuttle is due to land Saturday at 11:15 Eastern time (15:15 UT). If I can I will Twitter the landing, and discuss it live on the video chat. I’ve embedded the stream below, and I’ll try to have it up and running a half hour or so before the landing.
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June 14th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Dag Nabbit! So much to do today, Studying, Orchestra, Shopping, Laundry, (frack the laundry) AND I have to build the next stage of our orrery with the kids!
http://www.eaglemoss.co.uk/new-titles/duke_uk.htm
and now I have to try and make time to catch the shuttle landing!
June 14th, 2008 at 6:25 am
I’m working a Shuttle landing console right now, Phil! Unfortunately, the air force blocks all streaming video. Boo!
June 14th, 2008 at 7:32 am
[...] chat at Bad Astronomy. Discussions at Nasaspaceflight. Official NASA landing blog [...]
June 14th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Glad they waited till the 14th NOT Friday 13th to land it!
Yeah I know what you’ll say about superstititions like that but .. come on even if it is only pyschological they could do without pushing (or, in this case, landing.) their luck! Besides we all know what happened with Apollo 13!
(& that was launched on the 13th or something too wasn’t it …)
June 14th, 2008 at 9:04 am
No idea how to join the chatting channel, but this live stream is AWESOME!
June 14th, 2008 at 9:05 am
So, how many are watching this?
June 14th, 2008 at 9:08 am
De plane! De plane!
June 14th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Actually that should be: De glider! De glider!
June 14th, 2008 at 9:15 am
No idea how to join the chat either. Oh well.
I just heard the double sonic boom from here (Orlando).
June 14th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Annnnnd…………touchdown!!
June 14th, 2008 at 9:19 am
The shuttle is an beautiful and amazing craft. Too bad it’s expensive and has a fatal flaw.
June 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
What’s for breakfast?
June 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
[...] chat at Bad Astronomy. Discussions at Nasaspaceflight. Official NASA landing blog [...]
June 14th, 2008 at 9:25 am
beautiful landing, and a heck of a sonic boom this time. Really rattled the windows (and gave me plenty of warning to get out and spot it coming in)
June 14th, 2008 at 9:33 am
What is this?
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=bRvG26GrMHI
June 14th, 2008 at 9:42 am
[...] chat at Bad Astronomy. Discussions at Nasaspaceflight. Official NASA landing blog [...]
June 14th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Great to hear its landed safely!
(Even if I can’t get sound and my computers too old and slow to make it worth bothering with loading video, a-n-y-w-a-y… )
Been an awesome week for space exploration with the trifecta of :
1) GLAST launching
2) Phoenix getting it scoop of Mars
& now
3) Shuttle home safely and successfully.
The shuttle may have its faults but today’s its done a lot better than my pushbike did – I did indeed end up having to push that home with a flat (& coming off the rim) tyre!
_—–____——-____——-_____——_________——-
Which reminds me :
“The Ramans do everything in threes.”
- Arthur C. Clarke, ‘Rendezvous with Rama’, Final page (252), Pan
Books Ltd, 1973.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:05 am
LaCreptionon – “What is this?”
Try asking at the forum.
http://www.bautforum.com/
Who ever is building all these UFOs, they aren’t very good at it.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am
“#
# LaCreptionon 14 Jun 2008 at 9:33 am
What is this?
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=bRvG26GrMHI”
The sound of the wind is on a repeating loop lasting a couple seconds. The sound of the crash reaches the camera the instant we see the crash despite it being far away.
Fake.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:24 am
[...] chat at Bad Astronomy. Discussions at Nasaspaceflight. Official NASA landing blog [...]
June 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Hehehe. Does anybody know what a kite looks like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwvf1kkpbLM
June 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Too many people take this stuff for granted: designing and building the shuttle alone were terrific feats of engineering. I watch in awe every time it blasts off and and lands.