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Frozen Sooner
7/4/2006, 01:40 PM
Woo hoo!

Just watched the Shuttle take off in eye-popping gorgeous high-definition.

Thank you Mark Cuban and HDNet!
Vaevictis
7/4/2006, 01:43 PM
What, no fireworks? :(

(okay, so yes, that was tasteless.)
Frozen Sooner
7/4/2006, 01:44 PM
Man, it's not NASCAR. I don't watch launches for the crashes. :mad:
bringit
7/4/2006, 01:47 PM
pffft... you mean you had to watch it on HDTV? nothing beats sitting in your back yard and watching/feeling it for real :)
Frozen Sooner
7/4/2006, 01:50 PM
:mad:
yermom
7/4/2006, 01:50 PM
What, no fireworks? :(

(okay, so yes, that was tasteless.)

they save that for the landings now :eek:
bringit
7/4/2006, 02:01 PM
2057
85Sooner
7/4/2006, 02:21 PM
YEah we just watched it at the store on a SONY Ruby 1080p projector and 120" screen sitting in our new leather theatre recliners with built in ice chest and beverages. In HD it was spectacular (almost as good as the girls on Get Out).
yermom
7/4/2006, 02:47 PM
2057

that's really cool
OUinFLA
7/4/2006, 03:18 PM
pffft... you mean you had to watch it on HDTV? nothing beats sitting in your back yard and watching/feeling it for real :)

I am envious.
On a clear day we can see it from Lakeland, but I would sure like to watch it from Coco Beach. I just cant justify the trip over to have it scrubed.

It never gets old to me. I have watched every one possible. Absolutly amazing.


btw bringit, havent seen you around much?
StoopTroup
7/4/2006, 07:52 PM
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts-121_front/images/image.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/sts-121_front/index.html
Sooner24
7/4/2006, 07:59 PM
2057


I was in Titusville last year on vacation. You must be pretty close to there.
lefty
7/4/2006, 08:05 PM
I've been watching the launchings since Alan Shepard. I'm still amazed and proud of what we've been able to accomplish.
olevetonahill
7/4/2006, 08:27 PM
I've been watching the launchings since Alan Shepard. I'm still amazed and proud of what we've been able to accomplish.
Dayum Im old
Any one besides me , remember watching John Glenn ?
Oh and what was that monkees name befor J G ?
Vaevictis
7/4/2006, 08:33 PM
Meh, let's just drop the space shuttle, and move on to the next thing. The Space Shuttle is broken as designed :/

And this time, let's not let the AF get it's claws into the program. What they want from space and what the civvies want from space are two different things; instead, give the AF enough money to do what they need to do in space on their own.
lefty
7/4/2006, 08:58 PM
Dayum Im old
Any one besides me , remember watching John Glenn ?
Oh and what was that monkees name befor J G ?

Here's a history of animals in space from NASA. Digging in the wayback machine, John Glenn came after Alan Shepard. Shepard was the first American in space, Glenn was the first to orbit the planet.

http://history.nasa.gov/animals.html

A link about the history of America's venture into space.

http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html
OCUDad
7/4/2006, 09:23 PM
Dayum Im old
Any one besides me , remember watching John Glenn ?
Oh and what was that monkees name befor J G ?I'm older then you, olevet. And are you thinking of Alan Shepard?

To really test your age, try the names Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova. :D

edit: oops, lefty beat me to Shepard.
oumartin
7/4/2006, 10:37 PM
where did they launch from? florida or houston?
StoopTroup
7/4/2006, 10:41 PM
Earth.
oumartin
7/4/2006, 10:51 PM
glad to see you made it back to yer old self there ST! ;)
StoopTroup
7/4/2006, 10:52 PM
:D
GottaHavePride
7/4/2006, 11:09 PM
where did they launch from? florida or houston?

Florida, right? I can't imagine them hauling all the launch equpment to Houston.
oumartin
7/4/2006, 11:17 PM
well isn't the space program headquartered in houston?
GottaHavePride
7/4/2006, 11:23 PM
More or less. But the launch facilities are at Cape Canaveral in Florida - so when stuff explodes it does so over water. ;)
oumartin
7/4/2006, 11:26 PM
good enuff. i guess they were heading to florida a couple years ago, they just happen to come apart of Nachawhatchamcallit texas.
StoopTroup
7/4/2006, 11:31 PM
They can land in a number of places.

The take off thing is a little more complicated.
oumartin
7/4/2006, 11:36 PM
how hard can it be really,
whats that thing run on? 89 octane?
StoopTroup
7/4/2006, 11:37 PM
Everclear.
1stTimeCaller
7/5/2006, 08:53 AM
isn't Burns Flat the number three or four landing strip for the Shuttle?
StoopTroup
7/5/2006, 08:58 AM
I've heard that Tulsa is an emergency landing spot due to the length of the runway. I don't know how true that is though.
picasso
7/5/2006, 08:59 AM
I've heard that Tulsa is an emergency landing spot due to the length of the runway. I don't know how true that is though.
not right now, there's too much construction going on there.;)
Phil
7/5/2006, 09:22 AM
I'm older then you, olevet. And are you thinking of Alan Shepard?

To really test your age, try the names Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova. :D

edit: oops, lefty beat me to Shepard.


Tereshkova was a total Cold War stunt.