51D Mascot - 17/5/2007 7:53 AMI was there...took a while for the adrenalin spike from the two-seconds of main engine firing to bleed off, hehe. A little "trivia" question for fellow nit-pickers...What was the "noticeable misnomer" in the video clip?
astrobrian - 17/5/2007 9:59 AMRather interesting the sounds the SSMEs make when they are shutting back down.
AstroRJY - 17/5/2007 12:16 PMMKremer use the link I posted above to hear the full audio without commentary on the shuttlesource.com archives wehre the 41-D tape has been uploaded as broadcast.
MKremer - 18/5/2007 5:50 AM(That said, I still wish more audio files were available without even the PAO commentary. ie- is it *really* necessary for the PAO to countdown from 10 seconds and then constantly through ignition and then talk almost constantly through the first dozen or so seconds after liftoff?)
AstroRJY - 17/5/2007 1:23 PMAs for the aborts of this type, there have been 5 total, and I was thinking a few weeks ago of doing a thread pulling all 5 together:41-D 6/26/94 Discovery T- 4 seconds51-F 7/12/85 Challenger T-3 secondsSTS-55 3/22/93 Columbia T-3 secondsSTS-51 8/12/93 Discovery T-3 secondsSTS-68 8/18/94 Endeavour T-1 secondThere are online videos of the STS-51 and STS-68 aborts somewhere that I was sent if anyone has not seen those before either.
Endeavour118 - 23/5/2007 10:52 PMvideo is gone