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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #420 on: 07/08/2011 03:38 pm »
Leaving the ET behind for the last time...
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #421 on: 07/08/2011 03:38 pm »
ET Sep.
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #425 on: 07/08/2011 03:39 pm »
What  a ride!
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #427 on: 07/08/2011 03:39 pm »
I wonder if the transducer problem was the same as the STS-125 one?

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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #428 on: 07/08/2011 03:39 pm »
Thanks to the amazing NSF team for all the support over the years! I've been a quiet observer here for quite a while. Sad to see the engines fall silent for the last time.


One piece of business...can someone explain the reason for that final hold.

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« Reply #429 on: 07/08/2011 03:39 pm »
And that, ladies and gents, is how the frakking do that! ;D
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #430 on: 07/08/2011 03:40 pm »
YeeeeHaaaaa!!!!  Congrats.

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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #431 on: 07/08/2011 03:40 pm »
Who was the commentator on NASA TV today?  I don't know his name, but he's my favorite shuttle launch commentator.

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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #432 on: 07/08/2011 03:40 pm »
Atlantis in orbit. Nice job to everyone involved!

That was a hairy moment there with the last second hold...
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #434 on: 07/08/2011 03:40 pm »
Godspeed Atlantis!

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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #435 on: 07/08/2011 03:40 pm »
And that, ladies and gents, is how the frakking do that! ;D

Amazing..

Really had to hold back some tears there.  :'(
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #436 on: 07/08/2011 03:40 pm »
One piece of business...can someone explain the reason for that final hold.
The GLS didn't get the standard indication that the GOX vent arm was retracted...that's at like T-33 sec.  (Or maybe T-37...a little help?)
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #437 on: 07/08/2011 03:41 pm »
Who was the commentator on NASA TV today?  I don't know his name, but he's my favorite shuttle launch commentator.

Rob Navias / George Diller (pre-launch)
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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #438 on: 07/08/2011 03:41 pm »
One piece of business...can someone explain the reason for that final hold.

Looked like a limit switch didn't get made for the gaseous vent arm retraction mechanism

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Re: LIVE: STS-135 LAUNCH DAY ATTEMPT 1 UPDATES
« Reply #439 on: 07/08/2011 03:41 pm »
Press to ATO.

Very few calls on this ascent.

Rolling to heads up.

Yeah - was talking to my parents explaining abort modes, and half of them were too soft to hear, before NASA TV turned up the volume.

Is the ET-138 destruction camera beaming pictures down live? Are they going to be showing that to us? I'm assuming interesting stuff doesn't happen any time soon if the SRB videos are anything to go by..

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