Atlantis' Crew Hatch is Closed
Sat, 15 May 2010 01:23:55 AM GMT+0900

Launch day continues to progress very smoothly at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where space shuttle Atlantis is poised to launch on its STS-132 mission at 2:20 p.m. EDT. The mission's six astronauts all are strapped into their seats in Atlantis' crew module, and the hatch has been closed. The Closeout Crew will verify the integrity of the hatch seal before breaking down the White Room and departing the launch pad.

The launch team is not tracking any issues at this point that would prevent an on-time launch.

Weather remains favorable, with STS-132 Weather Officer Todd McNamara predicting a 70 percent chance of good conditions at launch time.

Flight here. I've been providing launch coverage on /g/ for 2 years now and I will give a quick update on what's going on.

The weather briefing is under way with a T-38 still deployed in the air. We just completed the hatch closure and pressure checks checked out A-OK.

We are up to the GLS Pre sequence coming online now which is a subsystem for the launch program itself.

spacevidcast has the best stream but nasatv is always a nice back up.

Since Kathy winters is not the weather officer, our confidence for launch is nice and high now.

Thanks OP

LOL YOU AMERICUNTS AND YOUR FAILING SPACE PROGRAM

It's the end for you americans, but we europeans and the chinese are still pushing forwards with unmanned space programs. I quess it's I sign of the times. Give it 5 years when the worlds economy has righted it's self and things will tart to move again.

>>939101
failing? how so?

>>939107
Euroneise?

>>939107
>pushing forwards with unmanned space programs

Implying there won't be unmanned craft launches from the states anymore.

cannot windows media
cannot quicktime
what do?

>>939115
uninstall gentoo

Hey Flight, nice to see you're still covering these!

>>939115
vlc bro

STS-132 Overview

Space shuttle Atlantis is embarking on its final planned mission. During the 12-day flight, Atlantis and six astronauts will fly to the International Space Station, leaving behind a Russian Mini Research Module, a set of batteries for the station's truss and dish antenna, along with other replacement parts.

NASA astronaut Ken Ham will command an all-veteran flight crew: Pilot Tony Antonelli, and Mission Specialists Michael Good, Garrett Reisman, Piers Sellers and Steve Bowen.

After the final STS-132 Flight Readiness Review, John Shannon, Space Shuttle Program manager, pointed out that Atlantis' last planned mission will be an exciting one.

"Twelve days, three [spacewalks], tons of robotics... We're putting on spares that make us feel good about the long-term sustainability of the ISS, replacing batteries that have been up there for a while, and docking a Russian-built ISS module," Shannon said. "This flight has a little bit of everything, and it's been a great preparation for the team."


I recommend spacevidcast for some good video of the launch.

is it t minus 30 min?

>>939138
yup

The chinese will take over the space race soon enough. The joys of being able to piggy back on the back of american/russian/european know how with out having to spend money on or worry about the general population. Welcome to the new world order!

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>>939090

WHO THE FUCK IS FLIGHT

>>939127
Always do.
They don't call me spaceman for nothing.
3 minutes till the normal t minus 20 minute hold. no launch constraints.
ascent checklist update now complete.

>>939151
FLIGHT IS THE MAN.

>>939151
I cover launches.
I MAY OR MAY NOT be sitting in the launch control center ATT.

>>939162
Protip: I'm not.

Now into the T-minus 20 minute hold. we will be moving into the LOX drainback performance. Ascent variables have been updated though so we are a bit ahead of the checklist right now.

communications verification check will be coming up here in a few.

t minus 20 and holding for 10 minutes

>>939168
You aren't me.

Anywho, weather looks good. there is some clouds from a weather system off to the west but they will hold off till after launch. some high cirrus down by miami but otherwise nice and clear.

Shame I'm not at school still, great location for seeing the launches.

We won't need no fucking shuttles once we build our Space Elevator, guys.

>>939172

How do you know all that shit, are you a wizard ?

>>939181
we have to wait for the singularity so there is an intelligence smart enough to design it for us tho

>>939181

we have about 12 more minutes in this built in hold. At the end of this hold there will be a briefing about the current situation, then we will be resuming and will run up for 11 minutes before going back into hold we will come out at T-minus 9 minutes

>>939184
Yes, I am a wizard.


No I have the prelaunch checklist in front of me.

>>939186
We have all the materials already, we could build the fucking thing RIGHT NOW for 12 billion.

>>939071
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>>939162
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>>939195

This is what NASA people do all day long, smoke weed everyday, browse on 4chan and watch an iron cock fly into space.

>>939201

That's chump change. Las Vegas gets that in what, a week?

Anyone know of a good (HD prefereably) stream I could play directly in mplayer?

>>939206
More like Las Vegas LOSES that in a week, shit's broke bro

Direct stream for mplayer
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163

>>939207
spacevidcasts player.
If you can get into the AMC-2 satellite downlink you can get mpeg-2 video.
Slight change to APU to OTC instead of OPD

Manual hold at t-minus 5 minutes then will run to t-minus 30 seconds and will run. if a hold is needed the countdown will clock will recycle back to 20 minutes and we are 1 minute 30 seconds till we resume the countdown

I wish they would build a sea Dragon. Totally, totally doable in the 1970-1980s. and guess what?

550 tonne to low earth orbit
PER LAUNCH
yes you read that right, the whole of ISS in 2 launches.
cocksuckers, give them the money to build this sort of stuff.

how long untill launch?

>>939221
Is there like a handy wiki page explaining what that is?

yup, spacevidcast works
thanksalot

>>939223
1 hour 4 minutes

countdown.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/cdt/

Get in here /sci/

http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow

we have a chat room

>>939225
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_%28rocket%29

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>>939240
WHY THE FUCK AREN'T WE DOING THIS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

>>939225
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/searagon.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_%28rocket%29

low cost, no nonsense, "I want a load of stuff up there for cheapo ".
Nasa reply? "not interesting" - really, thats their reply.

"But this came just as Apollo was being cut back and the Viet Nam war was eating an ever greater amount of the US budget. NASA dissolved their Future Projects Branch (dropping almost all the manned Mars landing work). Prospects for Sea Dragon essentially disappeared, and Aerojet could no longer fund it on IR&D."

motherfuckers. Also:
Costs to low earth orbit were estimated to be between $60/kg and $600/kg - eg one fourth that of the Saturn V or less.

Theres the last call.

Smoke em now.
We have 59 minutes till launch.

get in here faggot

http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow
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http://www.livestream.com/spaceflightnow

G1 launch polynomial has been updated now moving intoBFS G1 launch target uplink followed by a quick clear of the caution and warning systems

>>939248

>Nasa reply? "not interesting" - really, thats their reply.

They wanted to do it, but Nixon cut the funding and ended NASA Future Projects.

VHF WX Circuit has been deactivated as of...now

latefag here, has it launched yet?

>>939299
not totally true -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster
Nasa has, by design, had lower succes with this sort of stuff. Its baked in the political support for it, by being job programs and the like.

What's the issue they're working on right now?
I heard some techs talking about a ball bearing a while ago...
Is that it?

Ok a minor launch constraint. it falls within tolerances, but answers are not forthcoming.
Weather update occurring now.

>talking about emergency landing sites
>guy says "if we make it that far"
>my face

>>939324
Just a bearing that appears off nominal. It is not expected to delay launch however.
More information to come. NTR-45 issue.

The 44 completed though.
The 45 item is the technical constraint.

Gay eginiggers.

fuck this shit the stream is slow as fuck.

>>939353
You curse like poetry

Ok suspected issue is a ball bearing which might be from a closeout camera, the engineers are going around to verify that it is that and not something else from another module or even the payload itself.

We should still be go if the consensus is what I think I am hearing.

Countdown Clock Reaches Final Built-In Hold
Sat, 15 May 2010 02:26:27 AM GMT+0900

T-9 minutes and holding. This is a 45-minute built-in hold, and the last planned pause in today's countdown to liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission. Launch remains scheduled for 2:20 p.m. EDT from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The mission's six astronauts all are strapped into their seats in Atlantis' crew module, the external tank is fully loaded with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. Weather still looks great for launch time. Weather Officer Todd McNamara predicts a 70 percent chance of good conditions at liftoff.

beginning of the end was Columbia dude
the government is pretty bad at space travel

And we are now green again.
So we are good to pick back up the count here in a few.
Short and sweet, bearing came from payload camera.

We are go for launch go go go

>>939381
We shall debate that after the launch in 18 minutes,

Gahh none of the live stream are working for me!

>>939402


scrap that. got one

>>939402
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3&hpt=T2

Don't bother installing software, not needed

flight recorder is now online.

Status check being performed.

Final status:
Go

-Guy speaks a bunch of Russian
'Cool story bro'

Atlantis is a Go for Launch

11 minutes to Liftoff

>>939407
>Don't bother installing software, not needed
>Site contains flash

ok coming out of the hold and we are now deactivating the VHF WX circuit.

firing computer now in control at the launch room is now in control of the sequence,

access arm is being retracted. Bus to Fuel cells and launch commands are being uploaded to the shuttle.

t minus 5 min!!!

APUs starting up.

6 MINUTES TO LAUNCH

In before
*boom*
USA cannot into space

4 Minutes...

i have a feeling something bad will happen

LOX replinish has been stopped.
SRB Armed

4 minutes
go and check this launch man. The last one for this shuttle.

4 minutes!

Preemptive "OH THE HUMANITY"

ATLANTIS LAUNCH GET

t-3 minutes

engines in start position


OMG

3 minutes.

Oh man, this event is monumental.

visors closed. caution warning memory clear now.


BRB shuttle launch.

FUEL CELLS INTERNAL REACTANTS

Does anyone else watch these just incase something goes wrong?

t-2 minutes and counting


zomg

1:20!!!!

1 minute!

amazing, if you look at the close-up images it looks like some neanderthal tech. and yet it works..

Just came in here. Nice timing!


Here we go, GL Atlantis!

40 seconds fuck man

Launch occured at 2:20pm and rolled 15 after
Looking good now

Didn't blow up yet!

2 engines TAL

104% of rated thrust LOLWAT

I call shenanigans

104% of rated thrust?

the fuck?

Holy shit, did you guys see that explosion?!

Liftoff! Atlantis' 32nd Mission Begins
Sat, 15 May 2010 03:20:39 AM GMT+0900

Liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis! Mission STS-132 is officially under way as the shuttle and its all-veteran crew of astronauts rise up and away from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida following an on-time launch at 2:20 p.m. EDT. In approximately two minutes, Atlantis' twin white solid rocket boosters will burn out and separate, eventually falling back to the Atlantic Ocean. The shuttle's trio of main engines will propel the vehicle on the rest of its eight-and-a-half-minute climb to orbit, assisted by the two orbital maneuvering system engines.

you guys know we never made it to the moon right?

Holy shit it just exploded!!!

>>939525
You do know we left corner reflectors on the moon, proving we have in fact been there, right?

>>939530
not enough fuel to explode at this point bro

>>939525
Oh man. This thread was fun while it lasted.

Go for the bitch?

>>939537

Holy shit it just imploded!

>>939532
unmanned vehicles
OWNED

Go for the bitch? What?

>>939540
Pretty sure that's what he said.

what piece of land is that?

>>939548

cloud city. Bespin.

Nominal MECO.

OMS procedure will come up to put it into a circular orbit.

WHY DID THEY ATTACH THE CAMERA TO A FUEL TANK?

>>939548
North carolina

>>939561
For the amazing pictures of course.

wtf is that in the left wing?
looks like plasma

>>939561
so we may know how it feels to exploid

>>939561
To catch foam incidents like the one that took out Columbia.

>:( Fucking fuel tank camera!

>>939575

Oh, I am fucking retarded.

>>939567
Basically it is. Plasmatic trailoofs from the exhaust and ionosphere.

That is it for me. I have to get back to work,. I hope everyone enjoyed the launch and the coverage of it.

Atlantis in Orbit!
Sat, 15 May 2010 03:29:50 AM GMT+0900

Main engine cutoff is confirmed -- space shuttle Atlantis is officially in orbit, kicking off its STS-132 mission and the pursuit of its target, the International Space Station. Atlantis lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center right on time at 2:20 p.m. EDT, rising into a picture-perfect Florida sky and capping a relatively problem-free countdown.

>>939544
really?

That was pretty awesome

Goodnight, sweet prince.

25 years of flight, over because Obama doesn't give two shits about space.

>>939630
please be trolling

>>939653
I wish Obama were trolling.

>>939691

Actually he increased NASA's budget, Constellation was cancelled because it was bloated & shit.

>>939691
Manned space flight is expensive and unneccessary when robots can do the job just as well. Most scientists seem to agree with this sentiment (one of them being Hawking).

Even if he did renew the program, conservatives would bitch about government spending anyway.

>foam incidents
tooth fairy?

February 2, 2003

Q: One of the first questions we want to ask tonight is about the event of the Space Shuttle that was lost. First, was it an explosion, or was it just disintegration, or breaking up?
A: It was a "direct hit."

Q: A direct hit by what?
A: EM pulse.

Q: (S) What was the source of the EM pulse?
A: 3/4th density Consortium.

Q: Well, I thought Bush was a puppet of the Consortium? (A) Well, we know that the military are scrambling planes to go after UFOs...there are even reports of firing on them and there have been reports of military jets being disintegrated by UFOs. The UFOs are, somehow, in cahoots with the consortium. It seems that Bush and the gang are not in control of the Consortium and maybe they needed to be "reminded?"
A: It is not so much that he needs to be reminded, as he needs to be stimulated to react.

Q: (L) You once before said that Bush knows very little anyway - or that the "White House" level is pretty much in the dark about the plans of the Consortium - even if they are carrying them out. So, you are suggesting that they are being driven by forces of which they are unaware and do not understand?

A: Exactly. Bush is a "reaction machine."

Okay, you say that an EM pulse brought down the shuttle. (A) Where did the EM pulse come from?
A: From space based satellite.

Q: (A) Does NASA know about the cause?
A: There are some who suspect.

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