So far...Go For Launch!

rgphib · 07-10-2005, 09:55 PM

I am very excited that the Space Shuttle Discovery is a Go For Launch on Wedneday the 13th. I am just hoping all goes well and the crew has a good flight and return. Discovery is the same orbiter that was used for the first flight after the Challenger disaster in 1986, so she has already picked up our space program and put us back in space once....

I have wanted to be an astronaut since I was 5, and I applied to the astronaut corp as an Educator Mission Specialist a couple of years ago (I didn't get in that time...but when the re-open the astronaut corps in 2007 I will apply again).

Wish Discovery and her crew luck on Wednesday

Robyn

Brenda · 07-10-2005, 11:31 PM

I'll be there with hubby and boys to see the excitement! Cannot wait and will take pictures!

flygirl813126 · 07-11-2005, 07:24 AM

I've been looking forward to this. I went and saw STS 109. It was the last public launch before the disaster. It is quite an experience to see that. I have always loved space. Since I was little I told people I was going to be involved with NASA. I looked at the educator astronaut stuff, too, but I was too young at the time.

rgphib · 07-11-2005, 08:28 AM

We were thinking of non-reving down (Brendan only has a few days off though and I don't want him to have to waste them traveling when we couldn't see it up close)....but I think we will wait until I can get passes to see it at the Saturn V center (I have tons of friends who work for NASA). I saw a bunch of launches while we were in college and when I worked at Space Camp in Florida. I was lucky enough to see a landing up close when I worked at Space Camp because one of my friends there knew an astronaut on the flight and got us passes. It was so amazing to watch it literally fall from the sky!

I can't wait!!!!

Robyn

flygirl813126 · 07-11-2005, 05:40 PM

Ok, I am completely jealous now. I have seen the one launch from on NASA's property, and others on tv (When they are televised). I was always interested in working for space camp. Did you have fun with that?

Kristie · 07-11-2005, 05:42 PM

I'm really hoping we'll be able to see something over here in Arizona - i know not in the sky - but at least some type of launch time news coverage.. I really loved watching it go up during the night launches and I was there for at least one day liftoff back in college....

good luck to them!

rgphib · 07-11-2005, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by flygirl813126

Ok, I am completely jealous now. I have seen the one launch from on NASA's property, and others on tv (When they are televised). I was always interested in working for space camp. Did you have fun with that?

It was the best job in the world! I went to Space Camp in Florida when I was in the 6th grade and Space Academy in Alabama in the 9th grade. I was a counselor/mission director/wing commander (counselor: in charge of 12 kids for the week; mission director: in charge of the simualted missions and rocket launches; and wing commander: in charge of all counselors, mission director and all kids- huge job!) for 3 years while I was in college. My college was only a 30 min or so drive so I would even work a few weekends a month with the parent/child camp. Unfortunatly Space Camp in Florida had to close its doors a few years ago. After 9-11 people stopped sending their kids on airplanes alone, and that is how 99% of the kids got there. So they lost all their funding and closed

They still have the facility in Alabama though, so I hope that they will be there for my kids someday.

Robyn

rgphib · 07-11-2005, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Kristie

I'm really hoping we'll be able to see something over here in Arizona - i know not in the sky - but at least some type of launch time news coverage.. I really loved watching it go up during the night launches and I was there for at least one day liftoff back in college....

good luck to them!

If you have Directv NASA has a channel (376)....I would hope their will be television coverage on network tv since this is the first lauch post-Columbia

Night launches are awesome. They will no longer be doing night launches because they will not be able to see debris from liftoff as well. I saw a few night launches right at KSC and the sky lights up like the day, it is unbelievable. Although day lauches are just as amazing

Robyn

av8rwyf · 07-11-2005, 07:07 PM

Oh you guys! You just brought some great memories for me! I used to live in DAB. Well, just south in Pt. Orange. We had an ugly but great little rental on the ICW. We used to sit on our little pier and watch it go up. It was incredible even if you weren't right near NASA. I remember walking to my car one morning (we lived in New Smyrna Bch at this point) and the sonic boom hit. I forgot the shuttle was going up and it startled me. Not a good thing to do to me before my a.m. coffee!!!!

rgphib · 07-11-2005, 07:14 PM

We went to college in Melbourne and we could hear the sonic bomb if they were coming in from the south! One day my roomate screamed and thought someone had shot a gun right near our apartment....I said "don't worry, its just the Orbiter landing today"...she nearly died

07-10-2005, 09:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
rgphib Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NH Posts: 849 Recipes: Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	So far...Go For Launch! I am very excited that the Space Shuttle Discovery is a Go For Launch on Wedneday the 13th. I am just hoping all goes well and the crew has a good flight and return. Discovery is the same orbiter that was used for the first flight after the Challenger disaster in 1986, so she has already picked up our space program and put us back in space once.... I have wanted to be an astronaut since I was 5, and I applied to the astronaut corp as an Educator Mission Specialist a couple of years ago (I didn't get in that time...but when the re-open the astronaut corps in 2007 I will apply again). Wish Discovery and her crew luck on Wednesday Robyn __________________ ~Robyn~ Wife to a new Southwest FO....and Mommy to Jack!

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Brenda Jetgirls Plus Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: EVV Posts: 1,209 Recipes: Thanks: 11 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: So far...Go For Launch! I'll be there with hubby and boys to see the excitement! Cannot wait and will take pictures! __________________ - Brenda, wife to Eric, Capt for Shuttle America.

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flygirl813126 Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Northwest Suburbs, IL Posts: 778 Recipes: Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: So far...Go For Launch! I've been looking forward to this. I went and saw STS 109. It was the last public launch before the disaster. It is quite an experience to see that. I have always loved space. Since I was little I told people I was going to be involved with NASA. I looked at the educator astronaut stuff, too, but I was too young at the time.

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rgphib Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NH Posts: 849 Recipes: Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Re: So far...Go For Launch! We were thinking of non-reving down (Brendan only has a few days off though and I don't want him to have to waste them traveling when we couldn't see it up close)....but I think we will wait until I can get passes to see it at the Saturn V center (I have tons of friends who work for NASA). I saw a bunch of launches while we were in college and when I worked at Space Camp in Florida. I was lucky enough to see a landing up close when I worked at Space Camp because one of my friends there knew an astronaut on the flight and got us passes. It was so amazing to watch it literally fall from the sky! I can't wait!!!! Robyn __________________ ~Robyn~ Wife to a new Southwest FO....and Mommy to Jack!

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flygirl813126 Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Northwest Suburbs, IL Posts: 778 Recipes: Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: So far...Go For Launch! Ok, I am completely jealous now. I have seen the one launch from on NASA's property, and others on tv (When they are televised). I was always interested in working for space camp. Did you have fun with that?

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Kristie Admin/Owner Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona Posts: 6,631 Recipes: Thanks: 7 Thanked 17 Times in 17 Posts	Re: So far...Go For Launch! I'm really hoping we'll be able to see something over here in Arizona - i know not in the sky - but at least some type of launch time news coverage.. I really loved watching it go up during the night launches and I was there for at least one day liftoff back in college.... good luck to them! __________________ www.jetcareers.com

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av8rwyf Jetgirls Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CLT Posts: 284 Recipes: Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: So far...Go For Launch! Oh you guys! You just brought some great memories for me! I used to live in DAB. Well, just south in Pt. Orange. We had an ugly but great little rental on the ICW. We used to sit on our little pier and watch it go up. It was incredible even if you weren't right near NASA. I remember walking to my car one morning (we lived in New Smyrna Bch at this point) and the sonic boom hit. I forgot the shuttle was going up and it startled me. Not a good thing to do to me before my a.m. coffee!!!! __________________ Stacy DH Paden, 737 Airtran FO (ATL), DS's Jack 2/11/02 & Josh 6/4/04

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rgphib Jetgirls Ol' School Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NH Posts: 849 Recipes: Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Re: So far...Go For Launch! We went to college in Melbourne and we could hear the sonic bomb if they were coming in from the south! One day my roomate screamed and thought someone had shot a gun right near our apartment....I said "don't worry, its just the Orbiter landing today"...she nearly died __________________ ~Robyn~ Wife to a new Southwest FO....and Mommy to Jack!

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