Endeavour (STS-127) Launch SUCCESSFUL!

[rodsky]

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July 16 Launch SUCCESSFUL!

I took this screenshot about 48 seconds after launch...



Note the vapor condensation forming around the ET and the orbiter's nose...awesome

I enjoyed watching it live Replay of launch available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdBP1-vw2PE

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STS-127 Mission Overview

The 16-day mission will feature five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. Astronauts will attach a platform to the outside of the Japanese module that will allow experiments to be exposed to space.

The STS-127 crew members are Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Dave Wolf, Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Tim Kopra and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette. Kopra will join the space station crew and replace Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata. Wakata will return to Earth on Endeavour to conclude a three-month stay at the station.



-RODION

[BackBeat]

hope di na ni ma postponed kay naa na ra ba sad daw bad weather.. tsk tsk.. may unta pd dili magka problema ilaha pag lupad ug pa uli.. dili na unta ma utro ang trahedya like sa Shuttle Columbia.. Good luck Endeavor! hehe.. Good luck pud sa sunod nga mo lupad Lunar orbiter! hehe

[bluedes]

Thought I'd post a launch countdown clock link for STS-127 here...

Click here to view countdown clock for Endeavor Launch

If anyone knows how to display a dynamic countdown clock for BBCode, then please do help out

-RODION

gamiti na lng ug embedded flash or other embedded images.. naa na daghan mu-host ug countdown counters/clocks with bbcode help..

[rodsky]

gamiti na lng ug embedded flash or other embedded images.. naa na daghan mu-host ug countdown counters/clocks with bbcode help..

I was looking for a BBCode specific solution. I don't think iStorya.net supports/encourage posting of dynamic images like Flash etc.

-RODION

[brownprose]

Interesting rodsky.

Hello Houston!

[bluedes]

I was looking for a BBCode specific solution. I don't think iStorya.net supports/encourage posting of dynamic images like Flash etc.

-RODION

yeah, they have bbcode support instead of the actual flash or image plugin..
here's a couple that google turned up for me..

Tutorial: Creating a Countdown Clock for your Signature - CruiseCrazies Forums
Countdown Clocks for Websites

[rodsky]

TY for the links blue! FYI, your second link is what I used for my first post

You can watch the POST-SCRUB Press Conference LIVE using NASA TV, accessible here!

NASA - NASA TV

-RODION

[rodsky]

UPDATE: Launch has been scrubbed again There will be a post-scrub press conference at around 4:30PM Philippine time.

Reason for scrub: Same type leak.

-RODION

[BackBeat]

leak lng japon.. hmmm tsk tsk same probs nila before

[rodsky]

leak lng japon.. hmmm tsk tsk same probs nila before

Yep. Well, they're about to be retired soon, so I guess they're really showing signs of their age now. And to think it's the "youngest" shuttle. First launch of Endeavour was on STS-49, on May 7, 1992, so it's about 18 years old (counting delivery date of May 1991).

UPDATE: Press conference ongoing, check the NASA TV link above.

Also, will unsticky this topic and bring it back up on July 11 (next launch window).

-RODION