NASA TV fans, Space shuttle landing in about 8 minutes at Edwards AFB

[Up2Late]

Coming in from the South.

Man, I'd be sweating bullets if I were sitting there in Mission Control.

[originalpckelly]

1. They now have a picture of it, very faint, on the channel.

[originalpckelly]

2. It's like a white dot almost.

[commander bunnypants]

23. Man I am pissed welcome to the 21st century

I am at work without cable. Ya think the tv channels would switch from Dr. Phil and The Guiding Light?


No Mutha fucking no.

I missed it

CB

have a good weekend.

[emilyg]

3. God Bless Them

[originalpckelly]

4. Now you can really see the outline!

[originalpckelly]

6. Now they're showing the cockpit picture!

[originalpckelly]

7. They just made vocal contact, but it's still really hard to hear their voices!

Super freaky sounding.

[originalpckelly]

8. They keep repeating everything. The audio is super glitchy and freaky sounding.

[originalpckelly]

10. Now the audio has completely cleared up!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. that sounded soooo coool.

I recorded that and plan to use is somehow.

[originalpckelly]

19. That was just so weird sounding!

But is was really cool that they showed the cockpit view again! I really liked it! :rofl:

[Up2Late]

11. Yeah, what's with that sound?

Might have to use that in a Disco mix or something.

[originalpckelly]

21. "...And now your back, from lower Earth orbit..."

:rofl:

A new mix of I will survive maybe?

[eleny]

5. Thanks!!!

[youngdem]

9. LINK?

LINKY?

[Up2Late]

13. It's on "the Cable TV"

Just about to land now.

Touchdown!

[Up2Late]

24. Sorry, a little late, but here's a link to NASA TV.

They usually replay it about 20-30 times after a while.

<http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/>

[karlrschneider]

12. Here dey come!

45 secs to TD

[malaise]

14. Perfect landing

PHEW!

[originalpckelly]

15. They're down!

:woohoo:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. Yay! Safe and sound!

[blogslut]

18. Glad they made it back safely

:)

[BlooInBloo]

20. Phew. Safe landing.

[originalpckelly]

22. Yep, ever since Columbia it's always been tense for me!

THEY MADE IT! :woohoo:

[BlooInBloo]

29. Yah - I appreciate the each-and-every-time danger of it better than I did before.

[Captain Hilts]

25. The photography for take-off and landing is amazing. nt

[Johonny]

26. Yah they landed

Now lets never launch the thing again.

[ronnykmarshall]

27. I didn't hear any sonic booms this time.

But a freind of mine in San Diego just IM'd me and said he heard them.

My mom did hear them and she's in Bakersfield which is west of Edwards AFB.

I remember seeing one of the shuttles in the sky coming in for a landing one time.

[KOBUK]

30. It was very loud over L.A. !

[ronnykmarshall]

35. I felt something

so that must have been it.

[Up2Late]

31. This one came in over Baja California, almost due South.

I had one wake me up once, back in the 1983, when I lived in Santa Barbara, but the best was the one I heard (and briefly saw) go overhead when I lived in Orlando, FL, (in 1994 I think it was).

[Up2Late]

28. What is that puffing sound?

I've heard that before, but forgot what they said it was.

[Davis_X_Machina]

32. Hundreds of sphincters unclenching, n/t

[karlrschneider]

33. GGGrreat annnothher kkkkeyyboarrrd ruuuined

:silly:

[Up2Late]

34. Doh! Try washing in the Dishwasher!

NPR did a story last week about people who do that, and they said that most of the time it works.

MOST of the time.

Just make sure you let the Dishwasher dry it. I recommend the "Cool Dry" setting if you have it.

Do this only if you really did "ruin" your keyboard, I've yet to try this theory.

[karlrschneider]

36. I was kidding (about this kb) but I actually have washed MANY that way!

But I generally take them apart first...it's really hard to get -all- the water out without leaving some gunk behind that can be semi-conductive and screw up the matrix circuits. Been a while though...they're cheap enough nowadays replacements are too easy. :D