Going into the T-minus 3 hours and holding. A lot of things are about to happen.

So the shuttle fleet just goes into retirement after this?

>>18642388
Yes it does.

Transponder frequencies are in launch frequency. Here is the mains tream page. Tried and true by both L2 and /g/:

http://mcc.ocs.nl/

My audio loops are going crazy right now. A lot of chatter.

Still at 30% change of nogo. However, there are no patterns near the pad ATT.

Lots of chatter as the close out crew work on the pad.

60 percent chance of launch has just been updated.

Continuing coverage from abroad Coming in!

Since there is still time. Here is some old fun pictures that sprung up as a result of the whole /g/ coverage:

Kathy Winters. She has trolled G quite a bit with her abort calls.

Space Bat:

This bat was a fucking legend. Hitching a ride on the space shuttle and in theory made it to orbit (Where it promptly died)
Now logically, the bat fell off at Max-Q. however, we would all love to believe the fucker made it to orbit.

i like this kind of stuff, really interesting to watch.

>>18642735
Enjoy the link I provided. It has EVERYTHING one would need short of trajectory and telemetry information.

I think we can forgive my friends at L2 who made the page for that one. Kind of hard patching that information around

if any of you niggers want to put your photo on one of the hard drives they send up there, check out nasa face in space

awww yeah last chance

>>18642775
yeah that page is awesome, thanks.

>>18642820
do we really need ugly ppl of /g/ getting their face in space ?

sooo, we have 6h untill the L?

>>18642820
Did that about a year ago.
My name is also on the glory missions hard drive.

Personally though, I am a bit of an Atlas V rocket fan. Simply because I made SO many connections last time I was in the states.

Vid related. I was on the roof of the launch control center at cape canaveral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjUg6hQpLg

>>18642856
Right now 5 hours 51 minutes

>>18642443
>http://mcc.ocs.nl/
>install microsoft silverlight.

So, while we waste a few minutes:
Atlantis Tank Filled, Managers Continue to Monitor Weather
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:29:34 PM GMT+0900

Fueling of space shuttle Atlantis’s external fuel tank with 535,000 gallons of super cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen was completed slightly ahead of schedule at 4:58 a.m. EDT. Tanking began on time at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A at 2:01 a.m. EDT. The launch team continues to closely monitor the weather throughout the process. Weather remains at a 30 percent chance of favorable weather for liftoff at 11:26 a.m. Teams are not working any issues that would delay the launch.

who's this woman ?

>>18642971
>>18642971
Charlie Thompson, Test director in firing room 4.

>>18642936
Hello peasant. It is people such as yourself that are the reason this is the last launch, and that it isn't a weekly thing with scientists going to the moon to set up the oxygen plant for the new galactic travel center.

>>18643008
>Doesnt want to install shitty software
>Peasant

-1/10

>>18643008
>>18642936

Take your OS debate to another thread.


A shitton of chatter now. Ground loops and scanner loops are going apeshit.

Here is another link for streaming data:
http://countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/elv/index-ae.html

>>18643039
how many ppl follow the main page for this event ?

Charlie Thompson, Bangable or not?

>>18643051


Depends. During The Ares 1-X launch tensions were high and the thread 404'd twice.

>>18643062
Very Bangable

so many windows to look at >.<

Fucking Kathy:

Kathy Winters' weather brief with LD seems optimistic that we will be ok but still challenging 4 hours out.

Most of the weather is in the gulf and west coast moving north with some drifting east over the cape.

>>18643126
hey what am i looking at at 08 livestream - ESA ?

>>18643032
>Silverlight
>shitty

You don't know shit about technology. You just spew out regurgitated bullshit you swallowed on the internet.

>>18643115

I keep on rotating through main clock (The java one doesn't like me on NSF) the ELV page for telemetry info, the audio loops, and streaming cams on AE

>>18643152
ISS groundtrack.

I recommend Orbitron for ISS and shuttle tracking.

>>18643152
ESA is also showing ISS camera streams that ISS main isn't covering.

ELMO MOTHERFUCKERS

FCO abort advisory chacks are about to be completed back in Houston.

>>18642343
Hey! It's me. Been looking for your thread.
I'm watching the MCC right now.

>>18643233
Nice, I keep on trying to bump the thread with updates and commentary as much as possible. Sorry I haven't been around for the last one. Tsunami and all.

>>18643243
It's cool, So "Thick cloud layers" is "RED" on the weather screen, from what I see a minute ago.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/launch_blog.html
Launch blog
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts135/launch/135launch_team.html
Launch team.

See? Kathy fucking winters still doing weather...

As you all know, here is a picture of the Flight directors handbook. I am currently following the checklist and everything is on time att.

Why is the flight program ending, just budget cuts? This is a historic time for everyone. We were alive and witnessed the last lift-off for NASA.

John madden john madden john madden
football

which things do i watch for maximum space?

>>18643287
Politics is the simple answer.

Unfortunately we haven't had a president who actually says "The previous president laid out this direction. If I change it now, we will be repeating everything that has happened before. We are going ahead now lets do this"

You do not have that kind of forward thinking anymore.

Loops as close out crew work are going fucking apeshit. lots of information being passed.

>>18643299
Your choice really. NASA tv hd in other streams is real time. Space vidcast has the little clock and commentary (But it is under heavy bandwidth right now) ISS is nice to have on. STS-135 groundtrack is freaking epic since it does have telmu downlink.

Audio loops both scanner and mission audio are also perfect for getting a little behind the scenes feel.

>>18643305
hey where is the launch being held? im an europefag and have no idea where to zoom in with 17. sts-135 live

>>18643287
Some of us were here for both the first and last launches.
Each and every time we touch outer space is amazing.

>>18643287
It's not the end. We can do so much more, and we will. This may be a setback, but I'm sure that the next generation of space vehicles will be much better. Who knows, when we are old, we might be able to go up there.

>>18643322
Kennedy space in florida.

Ascent team is now on console.

Flight crew weather briefing is coming up followed by SLF Navaids activation.

Anyone else having audio issues on scanner?

GPS activation verified
Slight change on the STS 135 ground track as a result. More or less a flicker. Looks like the data is being fed in now.

>>18643329
It's hardly a setback though. The shuttle never was a particularly good cargo hauler and it has been in focus for far too long.

The change of direction from the Apollo-way to this infrastructure-focused program is arguably good, it's just that it wasn't handled very well. Part of this "failure" is because of the shuttle-tunnel-vision.

Normal expendable rockets with streamlined business and industiral methods seems to be the answer for the current day and age.

>>18643413
The question is, how long until we change direction again?
Lord only knows we have had a bad time with that.

Weather is once again the chief concern:

Launch Team Monitors Weather
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:20:03 PM GMT+0900

Inside the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the launch team continues to closely monitor the weather. The forecast remains at 30 percent chance of favorable conditions for liftoff at 11:26 a.m. EDT. Teams are not working any issues that would delay the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135, the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program.

Earlier this morning at Launch Pad 39A, filling of Atlantis' external fuel tank with 535,000 gallons of super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen began on time at 2:01 a.m. and was completed slightly ahead of schedule at 4:58 a.m.

Just image if it exploded.

Great finale!

So, anyone got any memories from previous launches?
This is me at STS-127. I was set up with a mobile unit. Netbook with bluetooth internet connection, Scanner and radios with ground loops patched in and monster boss antenna.

>>18643453
That would kill space exploration once and for all.

No issues that would warn of a failure. No ET issues which are being worked or outstanding.

They've learned their mismanagement lessons.

Now if only Politicians would learn theirs.

i don't think i'll be able to stay awake for it....

do you think it'll get scrubbed due to weather?
>i almost hope so, then i can watch when i'm not sleep deprived

the last nasa flight
;_;

ATV docking on ESA right now!

>>18643479
Hang in there soldier!

Only 5 more hours to go!

In fact! go take a 3 hour nap!

Just set an alarm clock.

>>18643479
>i don't think i'll be able to stay awake for it....
>SLEEP IS MORE IMPORANT THAN WITNESSING HISTORY

Go watch fox you piece of shit

>Shuttle Launch thread on /g/ with Flight
Ahhh yes.

From CNN:


Quick vote
Is the knowledge we gain from space exploration worth the money governments spend on space programs?
Yes68%5613
No32%2697

68% of the public realizes that the space program gave us modern technology.

>>18643506
Sorry that I wasn't able to cover the last one. I'll give some info about the quake sometime.

I dunno what will be covered after this. I'll post occasional updates and threads here. /sci/ is silent when it comes to launch.

What are good things to watch? Right now I just have the default webcams up.

>>18643496
sleep is important when you have a disease that inhibits your sleep cycle

>>18643522
Yeah I was wondering where you were for that last launch, no problem.
That's fair enough on the coverage front, just glad that you're around with us for this bit of history.

>>18643531
This is what I am tracking:
Spacevidcast, mission audio, KSC scanner, NASATV HD2, STS 135 groundtrack, and ESA cause ATV is docking right now. I'll switch it over to AETV ion a bit.

Wow. All loops went silent.

Crazy

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
somewhat good stream

>>18643531
here's what i have....

>>18643573
>>18643558
Cool, thanks guys.

Blog is active:

Coverage Begins; Final Shuttle Launch Set for 11:26 a.m. EDT
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:29:53 PM GMT+0900

Good morning from Firing Room 3 inside the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first rays of daylight are just beginning to filter through the clouds above Launch Pad 39A, where space shuttle Atlantis awaits the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program, STS-135, at 11:26 a.m. EDT. Atlantis and a crew of four veteran astronauts will close out the 30-year run of shuttle flights with a 12-day mission to deliver a year's worth of supplies to the International Space Station.

That is, if the weather cooperates. Shuttle Launch Weather Officer Kathy Winters predicts a 70 percent chance of unfavorable conditions for launch, including showers and thunderstorms within 20 nautical miles of the Shuttle Landing Facility, flight through precipitation and cumulus clouds. Any of these would keep Atlantis grounded today.

Next door in Firing Room 4, Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach leads the team of launch controllers as the countdown milestones pass for what may be the last time. The countdown clock is holding at T-3 hours, with another hour remaining in this built-in hold. There's more to come, so stay with us.

>2011
>watching shuttle launches

fags

Caution Warning memory has been clear.

Moved to a 7:30am Eastern decision point on weather. LD just asked for weather for Monday also if range opens up

LRD Comm checks are about to be underway.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

>>18643624
Streams already posted. mcc is the Flight endorsed stream. It has EVERYTHING you will need lol.

Comm checks under way for LRD.

Angie talking about flow, hot or not?

Atlantis' External Fuel Tank Fully Loaded with Liquid Propellants
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:38:42 PM GMT+0900

The "tanking" process -- the filling of Atlantis' 15-story-tall external fuel tank -- started right on time at 2:01 a.m. The first step of the operation was to cool the propellants' transfer lines and the shuttle's main propulsion system, which prepared the hardware for the flow of 535,000 gallons of chilled liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. It takes about three hours to fill and top off the massive tank, which feeds the shuttle's trio of main engines throughout the trip to orbit.

Tanking concluded just a few minutes ahead of schedule at 4:28 a.m. and the tank entered stable replenish, meaning it will be topped off continually until the end of the countdown, in order to replace the small amount that evaporates as it warms.

45 minutes till we come out of the hold.

>>18643620
where are you getting this (which stream)

also, does 135 groundtrack not show anything besides the google earth?

>>18643662
I've noticed that too, and assumed that nothing would show up until the liftoff.

>>18643662
The flight directors handbook checklist for launch.It's this post:
>>18643275

Which is how I got my nickname.

>>18643678
It will show the motion in real time once launch begins. until then it just shows the shuttle on the pad. Zoom into the launch pad to see the shuttle.

>Kathy Winters
Oh god no.

A few shots of the shuttle incoming.

>watching a shuttle launch
>live
>from my computer
>thousands of miles away
Technology is really cool sometimes.

guy reading the numbers off is trying too hard to be sexy....

Weather radar:

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mlb&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

Kinda worried about the stuff over tampa and moving towards orlando. There is a possibility that the band will hit Kennedy by launch time. However, I do not have wind pattern readings up so I have only loop to go off of.

>>18643707
lol just heard him

STS-135 'Incredibly Important' for International Space Station
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:50:53 PM GMT+0900

Atlantis and the STS-135 crew are bringing the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module to the International Space Station. The module is tightly packed with spare parts and supplies -- enough to help keep the station running even after the shuttles' retirement.

"This flight is incredibly important," said Bill Gerstenmaier, assistant administrator for Space Operations. "The cargo that is coming up on this flight is really mandatory for space station."

Also flying on Atlantis is an experimental refueling station called the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM. And at the end of the mission, Atlantis and the STS-135 crew will bring home an ISS ammonia pump so engineers on the ground can learn why it failed and how to prevent similar failures in the future.

Two Teams at Work on Launch Pad 39A
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:44:40 PM GMT+0900

Although most people are kept away from the launch pad after tanking, two important teams are there now. Clad in bright-orange suits, Final Inspection Team members are often visible on television as they methodically work their way down the pad's fixed service structure, using cameras, infrared and binoculars to scan the vehicle and related ground hardware for dangerous ice formations or debris that could damage Atlantis during its climb. Comprising seven NASA and contractor employees, the group also is known as the "Ice Team."

At the same time, the Closeout Crew is preparing Atlantis' cockpit, seats, communications and side hatch for the astronauts to arrive and begin strapping in. This team is composed of NASA and contractor personnel from Kennedy and Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronaut Randy Bresnik is part of the Closeout Crew as the prime astronaut support person, or ASP.

lc 39A
zoomed in on black guy in red jumpsuit
wtf....

>>18643741
mmm.. nope i dont see him, on all three lc 39a's

30 minutes till we come out of the hold. Scanner audio is chirping along but all commentary otherwise has gone silent. SSPF Highbay is showing an external shot but of some spot in front of the VAB.

Marget Howard:

Epic Bangable.

>>18643770
sait, why are all commentaries say it's t minus 3h ~30mins while the mcc page says it's 4h ~30mins?

dat radar....

>>18643792
T minus 3 hours and holding means they are in a planned hold to work issues, go through issues and what not.

Crew is being briefed on weather btw.

Likely Kathy is yelling ABORT ABORT while Ed mango is telling her to STFU

>>18643802
>belt drive
better for radar dj ing

My internet connection literally can't handle the number of streams I'm running, this makes me sad to no end.

Kathy....

Four Shuttle Astronauts Ready to Make Historic Flight
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:00:45 PM GMT+0900

Commander Chris Ferguson, a retired U.S. Navy captain, leads Atlantis' flight crew. Ferguson already has logged nearly a month in space during his two previous shuttle flights. Pilot Doug Hurley is a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps with one shuttle mission under his belt. Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim also are spaceflight veterans. Magnus has flown aboard the space shuttle and spent four-and-a-half months aboard the International Space Station with Expedition 18. All three of Rex Walheim's missions -- STS-110, STS-122 and now STS-135 -- will have been aboard space shuttle Atlantis.

They began their day with a 4:30 a.m. wakeup inside their rooms at Astronaut Crew Quarters, in Kennedy's Operations and Checkout Building. Soon, they'll head into the suit-up room and get dressed for flight before heading downstairs to the Astrovan for the trip to Launch Pad 39A.

>>18643808
Kathy saying 70% no go
FUUUUUU
SHE'S GOING TO DO IT AGAIN
AGAIN!

I'm confused has it launched already?

>>18643849
No, not for another few hours.

>>18643853
OK good I thought I missed it.

Some stuff from the weather guys:

>>18643846
Remember Ares 1-X?

DAT SHIP

>>18643862
>70%

Helicopter going up. Crew getting briefing.

>>18643865
>>18643832
wait, what happened on that day? i don't know anything about it

Nice Crew getting suited up.

>>18643865
OF COURSE I REMEMBER
THREE HOURS
I WAS NEARLY DEAD AT WORK THE NEXT DAY
KATHY!

Nice Crew getting suited up.

This is a bit earlier. Which means the ground crews at KSC are running ahead of schedule.

Russian here.

You stole our space design that we used in the 70s, LOL.
Poor USA, at least you haven't managed to fly spaceships without people inside them.

>>18643884
Look at those handsome devils.

>>18643875
Oh god. It was epic. They wanted to do a flight of Ares 1-X but there were all kinds of issues. Tribo-electrification was an issue and they kept holding because of that. Then a fucking cargo ship went into the launch range.

/g/ raged.

Crew due to leave for pad in 25 minutes

>>18643893
Why mess with what works?

>>18643870
Wooo, Serial Experiments Lain.

also, I'm trying my best to keep myself awake for this. If it gets scrubbed or something due to weather, pissed I will be.

OTC just called in their reports. Looks like things are good so far. Everyone is "up"

SRB sound suppressiont rough being inspected.

>>18643906
and why can't a ship be in the launch range exactly?

SRB sound suppression trough is A-OK.

>>18643925
Lets say a seven story high space craft landed on a ship.

>>18643925
Big rocket coming down (SRBS) ship in the way....

Kind of a bad thing if the ship gets hit ya know?

Furthermore, Ares 1-X was sub orbital so everything came down

>>18643893
>spaceships without people inside them.
satellites?

>>18643925
Because of rocket stages falling back to earth and shit.

>>18643937
>>18643939
>>18643942
oh, right, haven't thought of that.

>>18643940
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Buran

Weather update from kathy winters.

Sea conditions off shore....

Ships are reporting seas 4-6 feet.

Launch director is demanding constant updates it seems.

Too bad it's so overcast..

So they won't abort just because it's overcast, right? Only if the wind is too high?

do we have any idea of where is the comm truck?

I have no idea what most of you niggers are talking about!

>>18643957
Then lurk a bit.

This is the last Shuttle thread.

Here go to this link:
http://mcc.ocs.nl/

Here are some forums to get caught up on:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/launch_blog.html
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=25717.0
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=25871.105

Lots of positive weather briefings. Really worried about radar data though...

Watching the astronauts floating through the ISS is pretty amusing.

>>18643950

you should use a tripcode, op

Launch in 4 hours...
I'll be on my way to home...

guess i'll have to wait for Ariane launch in 20 days to have something live...

I hope it fails, fuck you USA

>>18643995
No need really. 1 people have auto filters.
2. nobody else uses flight.
3. I ain't no attention whore lawl.

Countdown Resumes at 7:31 a.m.
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:21:12 PM GMT+0900

The T-3 hour built-in hold is ending shortly. The countdown should resume at 7:31 a.m.

Countdown Going Well; Teams Watching Weather
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:16:15 PM GMT+0900

This morning's countdown to liftoff of shuttle Atlantis continues to go smoothly, with weather still the only concern. The forecast remains 30 percent "go" with a chance for showers and thunderstorms within 20 nautical miles of the Shuttle Landing Facility, flight through precipitation and cumulus clouds.

>>18644020
Posting with a vanity trip is attention whoring, posting for the purpose of identification within your own thread is completely acceptable.

It's really sad that people have forgotten that these days.

I love these threads, thanks for posting them OP.

>>18643995
Why would he? I dont think anyone here can impersonate him.

Will your site be up post launch? I'd love to view the crew entering the ISS through your streams.

Now counting!

Primary Ascent data is being input.

>T-minus three minutes and counting
Scared the shit out of me right there.

>>18644055
Yep.

Streams run 24/7.

Flight crew departure in 5 minutes.

Exclusive information:
Looks like MPS/SSME will have hip pocket paper in case the LOX 17 inch disconnect position indicator fails again and if the SSME MFV shows leakage. (FYI this info is available in the S0007 STS-135 Pretest Briefing.)

The 2 issues they've prepared themselves for were detected during the Tanking Test. The two components (PD1 position indicator and SSME MFV leakage) have been fixed. They shouldn't show again but the MPS/SSME team will be ready if they do. A MFV leak large enough to exceed the 4% H2 by volume (Aft Fuselage volume) will scrub the day and drive to more troubleshooting per OMI S1004/IPR.
I did not notice any other LCC issues so hopefully this is all they have to be ready for. Here's the PTB words on these two LCC topics.

No Approved LCC Deviations for STS-135

Possible PD1 LCC Change
LCC MPS-13 was reviewed for a possible LCC Deviation/Waiver because PD 1 (17” LOX disconnect) open limit switch indication B failed to transition to on as expected during numerous valve cycles. Trouble shooting isolated/identified suspect wiring and OEL attributed circuit behavior to unseated socket on the ship side connector. The associated wiring was removed and replaced. If behavior is seen again and once valve is verified to be open and configured for launch a “hip pocket” LCC Deviation/Wavier has been prepared facilitating continuing launch countdown without either open indicator supporting.

Possible MFV LCC Change
LCC SSME-02 was reviewed for a possible LCC Deviation/Waiver to the lower limit in Case MFV LH2 leakage is seen again.

cnt'd

and once valve is verified to be open and configured for launch a “hip pocket” LCC Deviation/Wavier has been prepared facilitating continuing launch countdown without either open indicator supporting.

Possible MFV LCC Change
LCC SSME-02 was reviewed for a possible LCC Deviation/Waiver to the lower limit in Case MFV LH2 leakage is seen again. PSIG review determined that the current LCC temperature limit based on modeling protects the 4 % by volume hazardous gas requirement. If the team identifies MFV leakage again and isolation via securing the circulation pumps is appropriate then, like during the Tanking Test, the team will isolate the MFV to gain additional performance data. The S1004 Emergency sequence # 5 isolation steps can be implemented when required

Look at those handsome folks who got pixelly right as I took a screenshot.

Give em a good clap as they go to the pad!

>>18644101
Keep waving...

Meanwhile back at the pad:
COLA ID just kicked off.

>>18644111

Chainsmoking like a champion right now. Lots of security chatter which is overlapping the pad teams comms.


LOL HOT MIC!

lol Good luck guys.

Test director polling.

No constraints

>>18644140
lol dumb yurops couldnt do it

just leave it all to america as usual

dum faggots

>>18644101

Which streams are you guys watching?

>>18644174
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

You'll never find a wife if all you talk about is space shuttles, Flight.

>>18644174
I'm watching spacevidcast, this ISS stream and NASA-TV HD2

Also:

My computer room.

>>18644139

You dirty bastard.

LC 39A webcam
SSPF highbay 8
SFN
STS groundtrack
KSC Scanner
Mission Audio

>>18644194
A true flightstation.

http://www.onlinestupidity.com

http://www.onlinestupidity.com

we are streaming it now!

if it's laggy, you should blame NASA

who is flying the huey?

did anyone hear a duck? either on the scanner or the nasa tv streams

>>18644237
Me.

Launch commit criteria is being verified right now.

LISTEN TO DA CHOPPAH!

>>18644241
on the convoy cam....

>>186so wait, the ducks sitting on the cam?

Flight crew is at the pad!

>>18644258
the fuck, i screwed up my reply

hank hill is in shuttle launch control

So there is no LON for this mission?
I shit fucks up I'm guessing they have to wait for Soyuz?

LCC Status is being reported to The ole Flight director right now.

It would be epic if we had mission control stream as well. I haven't been able to find that though.

http://www.onlinestupidity.com
http://www.onlinestupidity.com
http://www.onlinestupidity.com

STREAMING

also, why is the crew boarding so early?

>>18644296
It's within the schedule. They are only 15 minutes ahead of schedule right now.

>inb4 the scrub

STOP BY THE LITTLE GENERAL'S ROOM

STS-135 Crew Arrives at Launch Pad 39A
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:54:59 PM GMT+0900

The Astrovan just arrived at the base of the launch pad and the astronauts are getting their first up-close look at space shuttle Atlantis, standing fully fueled and ready for its flight crew. They're taking a good look and a few pictures before heading to the elevator and up to the 195-foot level, where they'll enter the White Room to get ready for ingress.

Since each astronaut has to put on some last-minute gear, such as a parachute harness and communications headset, the timeline allows up to 50 minutes for the astronauts to climb aboard and strap in. Once they're seated, they'll start a round of comm checks to ensure they can talk to each other, the launch team here at Kennedy and the flight control team at Johnson Space Center.

Incidentally, since there are only four astronauts on this final space shuttle crew, all four are riding to and from orbit on Atlantis' flight deck, with no one on the middeck below.

I was planning on flying to the US and watching a shuttle launch at some point.
:(

http://www.onlinestupidity.com

streaming it live

Some NSF humor:

Last phone call before space

Doug Hurley

"Do you deliver pizza to..." ?

Watching NASA TV on ustream on ps3.. good for something at least I'm amazed it works

i've just finished installing windows xp on a old-ass rig here and guess what image the system auto-chose for my account - a shuttle. woohoo!

>>18644313
so those guys pasted that T on there as a joke didn't they.....

All of this is ticked off:
BFC test, MEDS activation have been completed with no issues.
o NAVAIDS and GPS activation and self-test is complete
o The WLEIDS sensor system has been programmed to support launch.
o Currently the BDA clear is being reduced after the successful PIC resistance and S&A rotation tests.
o Preps for PRSD load have been completed for cryo load
• Air to GN2 transition is scheduled to begin at 0745

i approve this thread and flight's informations.

LD wants to see the next weather balloon data around 8:15.

>implying a parachute will save you when your several hundred ton hunk of metal explodes in a giant fireball at 17k miles per hour

http://www.onlinestupidity.com

streaming it live.

Ferguson is First to Board
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:05:10 PM GMT+0900

Commander Chris Ferguson is the first to climb aboard Atlantis. He'll fly in the left front seat on the flight deck, always the commander's seat. During a preflight interview a few weeks ago, Ferguson reflected on the way the Space Shuttle Program has helped bring nations together for the common goals of building and operating the International Space Station.

"We have done fantastic things in space," Ferguson said. "We've brought the globe together in space in the form of the International Space Station, where we formerly had these conglomerates in Russia and Europe, Japan, the United States, that had their independent space programs, but we've managed to bring them all together so we speak a common language. The interfaces all work together. We all did that because we agreed to cooperate internationally on the space station."

lol helicopter is trolling a ground crew member

>>18644415
http://mcc.ocs.nl/

Streaming it live 6 TIMES.

"he's the ASS"

>>18644432
ASP you silly.

>>18644426
streaming it with chat and better stream

http:/www.onlinestupidity.com

>>18644444
>recursive quads

I just remembered my SVC epic password lol.

Now streaming epic content!

Is spacevidcast cutting in and out for anyone else or is it just my shit connection?

http://onlinestupidity.com

>>18644340
You could try flying down here for the first of NASA's new spacecraft the MPCV(Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle), it should done in 2016 assuming all goes well.

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html

>>18644421
>lol helicopter is trolling a ground crew member
that will be the ROFLCOPTER then

>>18644474
lol guys check this out

http://onlinestupidity.com

>>18644486
We are all already there.
Stop spamming.

>>18644474
I'm going to wait until spacex heavy launch get going, I think. I'm not as interested in the humans going up as the rockets, lol.

>>18642343
> GO ATLANTIS !
see, the typographic rules about latin language properly encourages to put a little space to separate exclamation/interrogation marks, which are special kinds of punctuation.

ITS GOING TO HAPPEN
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Why Only Four?
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:12:53 PM GMT+0900

The last flight to carry only four astronauts was STS-6 in 1983. But because the STS-135 space shuttle assembly is the last to be assembled, there is no shuttle available to serve as rescue ship in the event Atlantis incurs some type of launch damage. In lieu of a rescue shuttle, the STS-135 astronauts would remain on the International Space Station and return to Earth one at a time -- over the course of almost a year -- by way of Russian Soyuz vehicles.

ITS GOING TO HAPPEN
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>>18644539

reported.

Comm checks under way. CDR just called.
Good comm links sounds like,

So, /g/, do you want to be an asscan?

haha i hope usa FAIL so hatrd

>>18644535
So, question.
If there are only 4, does this compromise anything apart from the no rescue shuttle thing?

Hurley in the Pilot's Seat
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:17:08 PM GMT+0900

STS-135 Pilot Doug Hurley is taking his seat on the flight deck, immediately to the right of Ferguson in the front of the flight deck. He's looking forward to seeing the International Space Station's seven-windowed cupola. It was installed in Feb. 2010, several months after Hurley's visit to the station during the STS-127 mission.

"The pictures that I've seen out of the cupola have been unbelievable and, and having been in space before and looking out a window, there's no camera that can capture that vividness, just the stunning views that you see out the window," Hurley said recently. "So, with the cupola having unobstructed views of the planet and the space station, that is probably what I'm looking forward to the most."


Also, I met Hurley once. He was awesome.
He flew on STS - 127 in 09 and came to Misawa where I met him.

any stream with chat?

>>18644557
No, if something was to happen they could get a Soyuz up and be able to bring em down on auto and leave atlantis in orbit.

AS AN IDEA

so is this launch something special or is it just a regular launch

>>18644579
scroll up

>>18644586
Final shuttle launch

Range safety officer conducting her checks

Sun shine!!

>>18644586
Last Shuttle launch ever

>>18644589
http://onlinestupidity.com

>>18644574
You are a very special and privileged man. Not sure if "lucky" is correct here; you seem to have worked your ass and a half off just to get where you are today.

i hope they fail and die

The dogs are clipped around, they're all around. Thats good.

>>18644481
the ROFLCopter animated

>>18644632
I started out of high school working in a bottling factory. I enlisted as an RF analyst. I worked my ass off and educated myself by doing college as well as intel schools and I pushed for places I thought would help.

I am where I am because I believe I am in control of my own life and I would LOVE to turn all of my experience into a job working in NASA under communications.

SANDY. REX. SANDY. REX

If it starts raining do the have to go and waitin the cafe till it stops or do they just not care if their hair gets wet?

Flight Bonus.

Case history of SRBs in handy JPG format:

T-38s doing flyover checking weather conditions.

>>18644682
>T-38
very cool

Thin and clattered clouds from 300ft and up. They can still see the pad clearly through the clouds

RTLS Runway checks under way.
First motion signal test underway.

Lots and lots of chatter right now.

this is so gay, why dont they stop messin and just go.
they are just a bunch of poseurs trying to get everyones attention and i bet really its all faked in a film studuo

>>18644711
i feel like i'm really at kennedy....

Magnus Climbs Aboard
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:30:05 PM GMT+0900

Mission Specialist-1 Sandy Magnus is on her way into Atlantis. She'll sit behind and to the right of the pilot's seat. Magnus predicts an ambitious flight for the STS-135 crew.

"It's a very busy mission. Our prime job is to take tons of logistics up to space station and get it up there while we still have the huge cargo-carrying capacity of the shuttle available," she said during her preflight interview. "In addition, we're tasked with bringing down the pump module which failed late last year, because it failed a little bit earlier than expected and we need to dissect it and learn from it what happened and how to improve our engineering designs. Those are the primary mission parameters that we're working with."

>>18644711
How are you so familiar with the procedures anyway?

Full history and data on SRBS:

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts135/fdf/135srbs.pdf

The T-38s are liking what they see. Fair conditions on to the south

>>18644730
what are you insinuating?

>>18644730
I have the flight directors handbook.


http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mlb&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

Latest radar information

I recall there used to be a guy that worked there that would keep us updated.

>>18644746
Nothing in particular, just genuinely curious.

shits getting real.

>>18643275
See this post:

>>18644759

MOC to Launch phase for FDO checks.
This is being worked right now as part of normal procedure

>>18644755
Where is this handbook?

Clear conditions over the pad. That is encouraging.

Looks like radar shows generally good but some scattered forming stuff near Orlando.

>>18644804
In my house.

>>18644804
I got it from my contact in L2.

That's the best I can give ya.

If you want. I can send it via email on gmail sometime.

>>18644814
inb4 winters last minute troll

>>18644817
You aren't me!

>>18644830
it is summer in america.....

>>18644822
I'd like a copy!
anon7519@gmail.com

>>18644830
NOOOO!!!

>>18644838
Shoot me an email then.

Rex took the name tags of the ASPs with him, classy. If we have a launch today, Rex is the final astronaut to board a space shuttle.

Orbiter

IMU Gyro is being alligned.

And there are the comm checks as well.

>>18644849
Sent.

First vids from Mission control coming in

Rex Walheim Boards Atlantis; Entire Crew Strapped In
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:44:53 PM GMT+0900

Mission Specialist-2 Rex Walheim has taken his seat in the center of the flight deck's second row, behind the commander and pilot. Magnus is strapped in on his right. Boarding for STS-135 is complete, with Walheim as the last astronaut to strap into a space shuttle.

Walheim pointed out the importance of finishing strong with a successful STS-135 mission.

"The Space Shuttle Program has been amazing, what it's done, all the great accomplishments, and you just don't want to let that momentum down, and so there is a lot of pressure to do your job right and to, and like I say, to finish strong," he said.

How long?

Some cells forming east of orlando...

>>18644891
2 hrs 37 minutes

Report from STA says weather looks better and better

Are we approaching image and post limit on this thread?

>>18644849
I also sent you an email.

>>18644912
peterleguno@gmail.com

I'd appreciate one too, if you would.

Thanks.

>>18644911
Another 20 posts until bump limit. We're a long way from image limit though.

>>18644911
Nope, 55 images and 277 replies, including this one.

>>18644911
>271 posts and 53 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.

About halfway, I think.
Before we reach limit, feel free to crosslink to another thread.

I heard something about this being the last space shuttle launch, does that mean the last one ever!?

>>18644919
>>18644921
I'll start a new thread since we are near bump limit.
>>18644917
Send me an email

what is this thing?

New thread:
>>18644947

>>18644936
Can't send you an e-mail as I don't have it.

>>18644995
It's in my email field lol

Now on new thread:
>>18644947

boppin over from /k/.

I'm so proud of the dedicated ground personnel who are the bedrock of the program.

They all at one time have looked up and saw something more than just sky above them.

Thank you for your sacrifice and commitment, we are all a little better because of you.

Godspeed STS-135