Live Shuttle landing video chat

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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.

June 13th, 2008 11:00 PM by Phil Plait in NASA, Video Blog | 22 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

22 Responses to “Live Shuttle landing video chat”

  1. 1.   madge Says:

    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!

  2. 2.   saturn8 Says:

    I’m working a Shuttle landing console right now, Phil! Unfortunately, the air force blocks all streaming video. Boo!

  3. 3.   News From Space! - The Original Space Weblog » STS-124: Landing Day Says:

    [...] chat at Bad Astronomy. Discussions at Nasaspaceflight. Official NASA landing blog [...]

  4. 4.   Joker Says:

    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 …)

  5. 5.   Maakuz Says:

    No idea how to join the chatting channel, but this live stream is AWESOME!

  6. 6.   nostromo Says:

    So, how many are watching this?

  7. 7.   Mr. Random Says:

    De plane! De plane!

  8. 8.   Mr. Random Says:

    Actually that should be: De glider! De glider!

  9. 9.   Grand Lunar Says:

    No idea how to join the chat either. Oh well.

    I just heard the double sonic boom from here (Orlando).

  10. 10.   Grand Lunar Says:

    Annnnnd…………touchdown!!

  11. 11.   Mr. Random Says:

    The shuttle is an beautiful and amazing craft. Too bad it’s expensive and has a fatal flaw.

  12. 12.   The Barber of Civility Says:

    What’s for breakfast?

  13. 13.   News From Space! - The Original Space Weblog » STS-124: DEORBIT BURN! Says:

    [...] chat at Bad Astronomy. Discussions at Nasaspaceflight. Official NASA landing blog [...]

  14. 14.   Spiv Says:

    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)

  15. 15.   LaCreption Says:
  16. 16.   News From Space! - The Original Space Weblog » STS-124: TOUCHDOWN! Says:

    [...] chat at Bad Astronomy. Discussions at Nasaspaceflight. Official NASA landing blog [...]

  17. 17.   StevoR Says:

    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.

  18. 18.   Halcyon Dayz Says:

    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. ;)

  19. 19.   Blizno Says:

    “#
    # 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.

  20. 20.   News From Space! - The Original Space Weblog » STS-124: Discovery Lands At KSC Says:

    [...] chat at Bad Astronomy. Discussions at Nasaspaceflight. Official NASA landing blog [...]

  21. 21.   LaCreption Says:

    Hehehe. Does anybody know what a kite looks like?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwvf1kkpbLM

  22. 22.   Peter Mc Says:

    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.

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