UPDATE: As of 7:17 a.m. EST Oriion is still not launched due to wind delays. If the link below doesn’t work (and it didn’t for me), go to the BBC link here.
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Or 7:05 Eastern time in the US. Watch it live here (click on screenshot below to go to NASA television). You can do it now to watch an informative clip about the mission.
And read about it here.
This is a test of the spacecraft that, if these early tests succeed, may one day put humans on Mars.
Don’t miss the launch! I won’t.
I have a lucky sis and bro-in-law camped out with their eyes on the launch pad for realz. I’ll have to settle for the virtual reality whilst I work. Oh well… they don’t have a Butter kitty curled up on their feet.
The rocket looks awesome with the sun rising behind it.
Is the narrator saying that someone in a boat is too close, forcing them to push back the launch?
Only just got logged in. T0 is for 07:17, about 5 minutes from now (they’re operating on ET?)
Now he said it was too windy. I imagine those people in the boat got surrounded by military figures, shouting and aiming helicopters.
RCO (Range control Officer, IIRC) did have a hold on.
I don’t think they’d use helicopters to control a situation like that. They don’t want things in their airspace.
That makes more sense. I don’t know how much movies have warped my fragile little mind.
Hmmm… call coming in from what seems like a Florida number. FLORIDA POLICE …? Probably asking for donations. I don’t think I’ll answer that call.
I’m having problems with the NASA feed but the BBC link is fine:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30327137
NASA has dropped out for me too. Trying Beeb.
Your BBC link is perfect for me. Thank you sir. x
I live close to the Cape, it is a boat in restricted waters that’s holding up the launch.
Doing another round of the desks for another launch try.
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