Author Topic: LIVE: Atlas V 421 - MMS - March 12/13, 2015 (02:44 UTC/10:44 pm Eastern)  (Read 119149 times)

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Resuming H2 or O2 fills to flight level.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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L-60 minutes.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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T-25 minutes.
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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POGO suppressor charge in work

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Valve functional test complete.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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19min this is going so smooth
« Last Edit: 03/13/2015 12:58 am by Prober »
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POGO suppressor charge complete.

Signing off. Must sleep.

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LO2 at flight level.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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 Centaur LO2 at flight level

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Control room.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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T-15 minutes.
L-45 minutes.
All flight preps are complete.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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NASA Education (the one I get on my cable system) is running NASA Edge (trying to present rocket science at a 2nd grade reading level) as their launch coverage, so we have a guy "dramatizing" the clean room environment by sitting at their viewing deck in a plastic bubble.  At least it's not as bad as the cartoon TV talk show they run, where the real guests are portrayed as animated cartoon characters and interviewed by 8-year-olds, also done as cartoons.

They just tried to compare the cold of the cryo propellants vs. the heat of the rocket engine as "The Human Torch vs. Mr. Freeze."  Complete with comic book panels.

And ooops -- somehow I had the T-0 time as 9:15pm, I was off by 30 minutes.  Post edited.
« Last Edit: 03/13/2015 01:14 am by the_other_Doug »
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L-40 minutes.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Lots of people to view the launch at Port Canaveral. Forgot my camera and the phone just doesn't has the juice for a good picture.
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We are at flight level ;)
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T-5 minutes. Propellants at flight level.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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T-4 minutes. Into 30 minute hold.
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Control room.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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