Space Shuttle Launch Live on C-Span 4 Minutes to go (7:33 PM Eastern)

[ThomWV]

Cspan live

www.cspan.org

[malaise]

1. It's on CSpan 1 as well n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. damn. THANX! ! ! ! ! !

for the up head.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. one minute,

all systems are

45

[emilyg]

3. Thanks.

God go with them.

[IChing]

5. 10-9-8

[BlooInBloo]

6. Liftoff! Please don't explode.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. There it goes!

I love this stuff -- never get tired of watching these launches.

[Hokie]

8. Watching on HDNet

Spectacular in HD.

[karlrschneider]

9. Go with throttle up..........went fine

!

[stranger81]

10. Thanks!! Boosters away!!

[karlrschneider]

11. Can reach Spain on 2 engines. All nominal

looking good

[Colobo]

12. Why is this important?

Why is mankind reaching for the Heavens when there is plenty of work to do down here?

[BlooInBloo]

13. Oh jeez.

[uppityperson]

15. If it's not important to you, there is lots of other stuff to do down here too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Oh, for pete's sake. Because we're not Luddites.

Because research is important. Because science is important. Because we learn things from these missions that benefit everybody.

[Forkboy]

18. Whew...for a second I was excited by something.

Thankfully we have people like you down here busily solving the problems of the Earth by posting on DU.

Thanks...that was a close call! :thumbsup:

[slowry]

21. Better than baseball; that's all I have to say. n/t

[durrrty libby]

24. Gosh no.......not if you're a Red Sox fan

[Posteritatis]

23. Because the world isn't black-and-white, zero-sum and unable to multitask. (nt)

[durrrty libby]

14. 6,000 mph... then 10.000mph than 19,000mph amazing

I get such a charge feeling the sonic boom. Gives me goose bumps

[Cameron27]

16. Wow, beautiful!

What a shot of the shuttle breaking away!

[TZ]

19. The visuals of the shuttle separating from the boosters..

was pretty amazing! Nice to see the cable news channels covering it live. I love the NASA narration too. Now this is REAL news!:patriot:

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. Here is a pretty cool video of the SRB seperation and descent to splashdown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFk8KCHaP3Q

If you search YouTube you can find dozens of videos that are pretty cool. There is one that shows the SRB's entire flight.

[wakeme2008]

20. Watched it on CNN and they had good coverage for a change. nt

[Bake]

25. Inspiring that we can still get some things right.

I went back and re-read accounts of the Challenger and Columbia disasters (Wikipedia), so I'm a little choked up, but the launches are inspiring. The men and women who strap themselves into tin cans on top of great big bombs are heroes to me; always have been and always will be.

The single greatest moment of the Reagan presidency (hell, the ONLY great moment), and I'm no fan of Ronnie, was his address to the nation following the loss of Challenger (written by Peggy Nooner): "they have slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God." That's still moving.

Bake