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Postby Cluny » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:51 pm

Endeavour is due to launch on friday at 15:47 ET [19:47 BST] for the final time and the penultimate launch of the shuttle programe :(

She was the orbiter used on the only launch I experianced back as a impressionable 10 year old [STS-49 , her first launch] :(

Check the woman swearing off camera at the end :))

Edited to correct the time , oops :))
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Re: STS-134

Postby Gaz » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:55 pm

Time still might be wrong. We're 5 hours ahead of Florida ;)
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Re: STS-134

Postby Cluny » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:59 pm

They are , the first time is in ET not EST ;)
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Re: STS-134

Postby Gaz » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:08 pm

Cluny wrote:They are , the first time is in ET not EST ;)


Ooooh, so NOT the ACTUAL time then ;)
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Re: STS-134

Postby Dan4th » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:40 pm

Right now we are on EDT not EST...........

Spring Ahead and Fall Behind, etc.

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Re: STS-134

Postby Cluny » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:42 pm

I thought that was the case ;)
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Re: STS-134

Postby Gaz » Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:43 pm

Still a five hour difference though, unless WESH2 News are lying when, at 13:30 our time, they were saying 08:30 in Orlando :p
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Re: STS-134

Postby Cluny » Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:30 pm

Launch scrubbed for 48 hours due to a problem with 1 of the APUs .
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Re: STS-134

Postby Cluny » Sun May 01, 2011 8:15 pm

Next launch attempt will be next sunday [may 8th] ;)
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Re: STS-134

Postby Minty4371 » Sat May 07, 2011 9:09 am

NASA managers met Friday afternoon and determined space shuttle Endeavour will launch no earlier than Monday, May 16 at 8:56 a.m. EDT. Taken off NASA's Kennedy Space Center Facebook Page.
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Re: STS-134

Postby Gaz » Mon May 16, 2011 2:20 pm

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Re: STS-134

Postby Howslo » Sat May 21, 2011 12:01 am

Some friends of ours are on honeymoon in Florida at the moment, and witnessed the launch. I'm not jealous. Not in the slightest. Not one jot... :ymdevil: :D
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Re: STS-134

Postby Dan4th » Sat May 21, 2011 12:28 am

HOWSLO!

Where Ya BEEN????????????

Missed your dirt and noise...........

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Re: STS-134

Postby Cluny » Tue May 31, 2011 9:20 pm

De-orbit burn at 04:30 BST , landing at around 05:33 BST .
Then theres 1 mission left :(
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Re: STS-134

Postby Cluny » Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:50 pm


1 to go :(
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