Hi Folks,
I'm sure this will be of interest to others, Space Shuttle Mission STS-132 is launching in under 30 minutes from now.
Video can be found here - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Also, if you've got an iProduct, go here for streaming on those devices - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat...ve_iphone.html
Enjoy!
"If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room!"
- me, 2005
merdat (14-05-2010)
isn't this the last missions for Atlantis?
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Yep!Originally Posted by Jay
its a bit sad to see.
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pretty amazing stuff
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Atlantis now separated from fuel tanks every thing a-ok.
Yeah, I watched it - I'd never managed to catch a Shuttle launch before. It was pretty sweet - impressive how quickly it gets going, leaves the pad way quicker than something like a Saturn V rocket from footage I've seen.
Very impressive, shame there isn't a replacement waiting in the wings
"If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room!"
- me, 2005
To be fair the Saturn V was bloody huge and weighed a stupid amount.
That roll at the beginning was a little bit sexy.
I heard on the news this morning NASA are retiring the Shuttle at the end of the year. Just wondering what they're using instead for transport to/from the ISS?
The Automated Transfer Vehicle will be used for transferring basic supplies - stuff like oxygen and clean water. It's (as the name suggests) automated so they just shove it on top of a rocket - probably an Arianne 5 - and it docks by itself.
The ISS should be structurally completed for the last flight (they're putting a spectrometer or something on it).
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