LIVE: STS-124: Launch Day / Flight Day 1 - May 31

[Ford Mustang]

Crew starting PMC on Privatized A/G 1.

[Ford Mustang]

Launch Engineering Replays now on NASA TV.

[Ford Mustang]

PMC complete, A/G 1 is now being used for regular COMM.

Umbilical Well downlink of the External Tank separation is now in work.

[Andy_Small]

trying to get the OCA router working

[dember]

About 32 minutes until the official start of the crew's sleep period.

[AstroRJY]

Launch Engineering Replays now on NASA TV.

Why did they just show that one Camera 207, the long range tracker from Patrick AFB twice?  Maybe they aren't paying attention   that they already aired that entire replay just a few minutes ago.  And why was it zoomed in so friggin tight at liftoff that all you cold see was the SRB/ ET nose cones until   more than 1 minute into flight? What is to be gained from that?  They have never  done that before that I recall.   

[Ford Mustang]

No ET Umbilical downlink, will be done in the morning.

[Ford Mustang]

CAPCOM giving the crew their final transmissions for the night.

"Good night, Discovery."

[Ford Mustang]

A live shot from Discovery's Payload Bay:

[Norm Hartnett]

Wow, they just were showing some footage from the station and that reminded me that this mission will set another milestone, the first time four different spacecraft will be docked to the station simultaneously. And the first time three different nations will have spacecraft docked at once. The station is finally coming to life.

[AstroRJY]

KSC has put the first launch photos online now:

http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/search.cfm?cat=4

[dember]

I like those pictures of earth from Discovery.

[DataMax]

This is sorta related to Flight Day 1, but if you want, feel free to delete or move my message.

I've had trouble all day with my NasaTV feed using both the 1200k Yahoo feed and the NasaTV website/Feed.

Has anyone else had problems or is it for some reason my computer and/or internet?

Thanks.

[jmjawors]

I've had no problem today, DataMax.  Not sure what to suggest to you, but the feed is in good shape.

[DataMax]

Well, now that I posted, the NasaTV website feed seems to be working.
The 1200k feed still doesn't work, though.
I might just have to watch this mission in a little window.   
I really wished I had NasaTV on my Cable TV.

Thanks for your info.

[jmjawors]

Looks like something has floated away from Discovery (white dot near center of image)...

[Ford Mustang]

Looks like something has floated away from Discovery (white dot near center of image)...

Could be a number of things... A star, ice... anything.

[jmjawors]

Could be a number of things... A star, ice... anything.

I'm not trying to raise alarm bells.  Not a star, most likely ice.  I was just observing that something has floated away from Discovery.   

[starbird]

Why did they just show that one Camera 207, the long range tracker from Patrick AFB twice?  Maybe they aren't paying attention   that they already aired that entire replay just a few minutes ago.  And why was it zoomed in so friggin tight at liftoff that all you cold see was the SRB/ ET nose cones until   more than 1 minute into flight? What is to be gained from that?  They have never  done that before that I recall.   

Camera 207 appears to be a 22" telescope with a video camera attached. These replays looked similar to the last several I've seen, including not being able to focus until after the stack leaves the pad.

http://www.l-3com.com/brashear/markets/doams.htm

[Ford Mustang]

I'm not trying to raise alarm bells.  Not a star, most likely ice.  I was just observing that something has floated away from Discovery.   

I fully understand.  Nice observation, too!