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« Reply #540 on: 02/25/2011 01:04 AM » |
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This could be good!
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Cape Flight
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« Reply #541 on: 02/25/2011 01:11 AM » |
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I'm not sure what I did, but when I posted the "Thanks!" I seem to have wiped out the official launch time that you provided. My apolgies but, would you mind posting one more time. Thanks again!
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« Reply #542 on: 02/25/2011 01:13 AM » |
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First view of the payload bay (though a bit dark)
Obviously Ku is now fixed
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Chris Bergin
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« Reply #543 on: 02/25/2011 01:13 AM » |
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I'm not sure what I did, but when I posted the "Thanks!" I seem to have wiped out the official launch time that you provided. My apolgies but, would you mind posting one more time. Thanks again!
Still there  Can someone please post the actual launch time with seconds. I'm trying to reset my MET clock. Thanks!
21:53.24 GMT - Official Launch time 
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Chris Bergin
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« Reply #544 on: 02/25/2011 01:13 AM » |
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This could be good!
And it was! Amazing how they keep calm. Really is a privilage to watch. That's what experience buys you.
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Lee Jay
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« Reply #545 on: 02/25/2011 01:19 AM » |
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That's what experience buys you.
And practice. Watching this one and the STS-93 launch would put to rest any doubts about the value of sims.
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« Reply #546 on: 02/25/2011 01:24 AM » |
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That's what experience buys you.
And practice. Watching this one and the STS-93 launch would put to rest any doubts about the value of sims.
This was fun. There weren't any issues, problems, etc with the entire count and the Range issue. We were all watching the clocks, watching our systems, listening to the loops, etc and then everything picked up with 2 seconds to spare. It was a lot like the movies and someone having to disarm a bomb and clipped the right wire with only a second or two to spare. It's great to be back to flying!
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Chris Bergin
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« Reply #547 on: 02/25/2011 01:27 AM » |
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Nice work OV! Some nice tribute videos running on NTV right now, let down by PAO's over use of the word "it" for Discovery. Wouldn't of hurt to call her a "her". She is a ship last time I checked. (But I always get cranky about that  )
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« Reply #548 on: 02/25/2011 01:29 AM » |
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Did anyone hear the delta-V for the NC-1 burn?
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Space Pete
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« Reply #549 on: 02/25/2011 01:42 AM » |
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Nice work OV!
Some nice tribute videos running on NTV right now, let down by PAO's over use of the word "it" for Discovery. Wouldn't of hurt to call her a "her". She is a ship last time I checked.
(But I always get cranky about that )
They probably aren't allowed to call Discovery "her" by law - equal opportunities and all that. You never complain when I call ISS "it" - I want equal treatment for ISS! 
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Lee Jay
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« Reply #550 on: 02/25/2011 01:44 AM » |
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That's what experience buys you.
And practice. Watching this one and the STS-93 launch would put to rest any doubts about the value of sims.
This was fun. There weren't any issues, problems, etc with the entire count and the Range issue. We were all watching the clocks, watching our systems, listening to the loops, etc and then everything picked up with 2 seconds to spare.
It was a lot like the movies and someone having to disarm a bomb and clipped the right wire with only a second or two to spare.
It's great to be back to flying!
I was wondering something. I know that PLT has always historically had a bit of a time crunch to get the APUs going in time. In this situation, I was thinking he could have been caught a little flat-footed (understandably). But I didn't catch it real-time. Obviously he got the job done, but did he get it done normally or just barely in time?
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« Reply #551 on: 02/25/2011 01:50 AM » |
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I was wondering something. I know that PLT has always historically had a bit of a time crunch to get the APUs going in time. In this situation, I was thinking he could have been caught a little flat-footed (understandably). But I didn't catch it real-time. Obviously he got the job done, but did he get it done normally or just barely in time?
Correct me if I am wrong, but the PLT only activates the APUs after the 5:00 mark (GLS GO for orbiter APU start). APU prestart is done at ~6:15. Assuming the APU prestart was complete on time, as the count resumed the GLS GO would have been given, OTC would have called for the PLT to perform APU start and the PLT would have had the normal amount of time to perform the task.
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Ronsmytheiii
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« Reply #552 on: 02/25/2011 01:51 AM » |
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RMS power up has been completed
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Lee Jay
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« Reply #553 on: 02/25/2011 01:54 AM » |
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I was wondering something. I know that PLT has always historically had a bit of a time crunch to get the APUs going in time. In this situation, I was thinking he could have been caught a little flat-footed (understandably). But I didn't catch it real-time. Obviously he got the job done, but did he get it done normally or just barely in time?
Correct me if I am wrong, but the PLT only activates the APUs after the 5:00 mark (GLS GO for orbiter APU start). APU prestart is done at ~6:15. Assuming the APU prestart was complete on time, as the count resumed the GLS GO would have been given, OTC would have called for the PLT to perform APU start and the PLT would have had the normal amount of time to perform the task.
I think that's right, but normally he'd have been expecting 4:59 to come right after 5:00. This time, we didn't really know 4:59 was going to come at all until about 3 seconds before it did! So I was thinking he might have gotten a late start.
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« Reply #554 on: 02/25/2011 01:57 AM » |
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I was wondering something. I know that PLT has always historically had a bit of a time crunch to get the APUs going in time. In this situation, I was thinking he could have been caught a little flat-footed (understandably). But I didn't catch it real-time. Obviously he got the job done, but did he get it done normally or just barely in time?
Correct me if I am wrong, but the PLT only activates the APUs after the 5:00 mark (GLS GO for orbiter APU start). APU prestart is done at ~6:15. Assuming the APU prestart was complete on time, as the count resumed the GLS GO would have been given, OTC would have called for the PLT to perform APU start and the PLT would have had the normal amount of time to perform the task.
I think that's right, but normally he'd have been expecting 4:59 to come right after 5:00. This time, we didn't really know 4:59 was going to come until about 3 seconds before it did! So I was thinking he might have gotten a late start.
Fair enough... but had it been me, my finger would have been waiting on the next switch, ready for that call. So I can only imagine PLT Boe would have been all over it like the proverbial fat kid on a ham sandwich.
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