STS-124: Cheerleading Thread

[hobson911]

Godspeed Discovery what a great mission this is going to be!

[juleshow]

Godpseed to a great orbiter on another great mission!

[haywoodfloyd]

Looking forward to an exciting mission.
Godspeed Discovery.

[Bruce]

I'm in my hotel room in Titusville, just waiting until it's time to go out to KSC. A mixture of jetlag and excitement means I was up early. I can't imagine how the astronauts must be feeling right now, but I'm sure they'd be awake early too

Good Luck Discovery. Looking forward to seeing you fly this afternoon.

[RonaldJamesCoote]

Bruce, you are suffering in the same way I am, also awake from 5am in my Titusville hotel room. Have a great trip out to KSC today - see you there with 5000 others!

[jeff122670]

who is the CLOWN doing commentary today?  i assume he has been practicing for the last hour, but the last ten minutes have been terrible!!  i guess it is important to know when you are hot mic and when you arent...ha.ha

[Lawntonlookirs]

GO DISCOVERY AND MISSION STS 124

[cljohnston108]

It's about local Noon as Mark Kelly slides into his seat... and somebody needs to put up a sun shade!



"Ahhhh, that's a relief!"

[Bret]

Go Discovery! Go break the record for the orbiter with the most days in space!

[Lee Jay]

My best wishes to the teams and the crew for a safe and successful mission, and here's hoping the tank mods perform as-advertised.

[Andrewwski]

Here we go!  Go Discovery, Go STS-124!

[spaceshuttle]

Great launch! Cheers to another great mission.

[Mark Dave]

Amazing launch.

How did the send off go at booster ignition, I can't remember.

Also what is the wake up music chosen for this mission?

[robertross]

Great launch for Discovery. Big Congrats to all the teams on the ground who prepared her. Can't wait to see STS-125 launch (fingers crossed...live in person).

[Bubbinski]

Great flight so far!  I had a thought that just occurred to me, and I figure this is as good a place as any to post it, since it is cheerleading:

One year ago today I was at the KSC Visitor Center to watch STS-117 lift off just before sunset.  One of the pictures I took of it is my avatar.

In the year since, counting STS-117, we have had six shuttle flights.  There have been three truss elements (S3/S4, S5, P6) added or moved to their final location, as well as four new pressurized modules (Harmony, Columbus, JLP, Kibo) and the Canada Hand (Dextre) added to ISS.  When Atlantis docked to ISS in June 2007, the station was very different than it is now.

The ISS has come a very long way.  Congratulations!

[northanger]

Godspeed Discovery.

[Lee Jay]

Now that you're committed to heading to Florida, my best wishes for safe return.

[maxx]

Welcome home Discovery!! Great landing!