LIVE: STS-117: Launch and Flight Day 1 - June 8

• #440 by bsegal on 09 Jun, 2007 02:41
• anyone have links to the FD1 and FD2 (rendezvous) flight plans?
• #441 by rdale on 09 Jun, 2007 02:43
• "Execute" packages... They've been published on every mission since Columbia so no reason to think otherwise for this one.
  
  Flight plan is available at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/flightdatafiles/index.html
• #442 by Chris Bergin on 09 Jun, 2007 02:46
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  bsegal - 9/6/2007  3:41 AM
  
  anyone have links to the FD1 and FD2 (rendezvous) flight plans?

  
  And while you've brought that up, we'll be having live threads for each Flight Day. FD2 will be opened tomorrow morning.
• #443 by Lee Jay on 09 Jun, 2007 02:50
• Do they ever talk about SAS on the public channels?
• #444 by Chris Bergin on 09 Jun, 2007 02:54
• RMS powerup has begun.
• #445 by Ford Mustang on 09 Jun, 2007 03:03
• Does anyone know why this is in B&W?  Will it be in color?
• #446 by on 09 Jun, 2007 03:03
• will they be playing the MCC replay of the launch at 11:30 p.m?
• #447 by TNCMAXQ on 09 Jun, 2007 03:28
• What a magnificent sight! I could write pages with my comments. The causeway view was tremendous. It was worth the wait. It was hard to hear the commentay frm launch control so I did not know they were no go for a time due to the TAL sites all being down. Then until the fnal second I was nervous. Seemed like George Diller dragged out that final second before saying "LIFTOFF!" for what seemed like a long time to me. ;-) But I was thrilled and very emotional during ascent. This was my 12th launch but it has been 7 years since the last one I saw, so I wanted very badly for it to get off. I was not disappointed.
• #448 by Avron on 09 Jun, 2007 03:29
• Amazing... just amazing.. all I just could not believe what my eyes where telling me...  there is nothing like watching this all live..... since 9 years of age I have watched mankind go into space.. now 30 odd years 9 thousand miles from that age... a little boy watched it all live...
  
  

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• #449 by Ford Mustang on 09 Jun, 2007 03:30
• Ascent Flight Control Team Video Replay

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• #450 by Chris Bergin on 09 Jun, 2007 03:43
• RMS and OBSS Nominal Deploy.
• #451 by rdale on 09 Jun, 2007 03:47
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  Justin Wheat - 8/6/2007  11:03 PM
  
  will they be playing the MCC replay of the launch at 11:30 p.m?

  
  The latest TV schedule is ALWAYS available for you - http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
• #452 by Zachstar on 09 Jun, 2007 03:51
• Seems like a major bit of the blanket sticking up from one of the OMS pods. This doesn't sound good at all!
• #453 by jmjawors on 09 Jun, 2007 03:53
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  Zachstar - 8/6/2007  10:51 PM
  
  Seems like a major bit of the blanket sticking up from one of the OMS pods. This dosen't sound good at all!

  
  Indeed there is... but that's a pretty quick assessment on your part.  Let's get some photos and let the flight teams give us an expert opinion.  No reason to instantly be negative.
• #454 by Zachstar on 09 Jun, 2007 03:55
• Wasn't such at all! I merely stated that it didn't SOUND good.
  
  I did no "assessment" and thank you not to assume such.
• #455 by Chris Bergin on 09 Jun, 2007 03:56
• It is an issue. Getting a report for L2, but will paraphrase into here.
• #456 by Chris Bergin on 09 Jun, 2007 03:58
• Can someone get me some screenshots when I get sources on this.
• #457 by Zachstar on 09 Jun, 2007 04:00
• Edit: VLC Snaps are over 100kb! I removed it to save bandwidth and space.
• #458 by Chris Bergin on 09 Jun, 2007 04:00
• Crew has reported it and are taking photos. JSC managers are on the case, they are classing it as a 4-5 inch piece of OMS Pod (port) blanket.
• #459 by Zachstar on 09 Jun, 2007 04:02
• Better version of 1st angle.

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