Five minutes to launch

[bananas]

live video: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/135_splash/index.html
and http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv

[RedCloud]

1. I thought I read five minutes to lunch, so I grabbed a sub.

[gateley]

2. On TV -- MSNBC, CNN and NASA TV, C-Span2

C-Span seems to be simulcasting from NASA TV (although a short delay), CNN, MSNBC have commentary.

:cry:

[gateley]

3. T minus One Minute!

:bounce:

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Probably the last americans we'll see in space in our lifetimes. n/t

[supraTruth]

7. ON OUR OWN ship at least, for MANY of US, thanks AGAIN to the LEGACY of CHEATERbush who diverted

PRECIOUS AMERICAN $ to his FAILED IRAQ POLICE ACTION "WAR!" & and allowed our Space Program to flounder!

What an A**H*** HE WAS/IS!

[obxhead]

5. stopped at 31 seconds for failure...

:(

[AngryAmish]

6. dammit what a tease

[Starry Messenger]

8. This is making me cry.

I remember watching the first one go up with my dad.

[Brickbat]

9. I teared up, too.

I just watched this with my daughter; I was a little older than her now when I watched the first one go up. I loved space and was so interested in the new and exciting things that NASA was doing. So sad that it's gone.

[RebelOne]

10. Each time I have seen a shuttle launch, I tear up.

Even when I was a kid, I had wanted to see humans reach the moon, and hoped I would see that day. When it finally happened, I was ecstatic.