Shuttle launch tonight

[The Green Monkey]

Assuming weather doesn't foul it all up. 1:36AM Eastern.

We just finished up with a biblical thunderstorm, so hopefully that business subsides over the next 4 hours. I want to go out on the roof to smoke a cigar and take pictures.

Yahoo article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090824/sc_space/spaceshuttlelaunchvisiblefromeastcoast

Main NASA page
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

 

[The Green Monkey]

Scrubbed for just under 24 hours until 1:10 AM Wednesday morning.

 

[donzz]

I watch them form my driveway almost everytime it launches

 

[The Green Monkey]

Scrubbed again, looks like they're shooting for 12:22 AM EDT 9/9. If that doesn't work, there's another window just before midnight that same day.

 

[The Green Monkey]

Looks like it'll probably go up at 11:59 tonight.

I've got my camera charged, my flask full of Pampero Aniversario, and now all I have to do is figure out what size of Opus I'm going to take out onto the roof with me.

The sky is totally clear down here so I should have some neat pics later on.

 

[grateful1]

Looks like it'll probably go up at 11:59 tonight.

I've got my camera charged, my flask full of Pampero Aniversario, and now all I have to do is figure out what size of Opus I'm going to take out onto the roof with me.

The sky is totally clear down here so I should have some neat pics later on.

Pouring rain!

But I'll have a cigar and give a nod to the sky! :thumbs: