Shuttle launch today if anyones interested...

[ringo]

go to

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

or on Sky News red button.

due to go in around 15 mins - but weather may scupper things. This is probably the last night launch of a shuttle...

 

[ringo]

forget it scrubbed for 24 hours - to cloudy.

 

[orangeally]

And thats why nobody watches it...

shame though,i remember watching the first time the shuttle went up,it seems to have lost some of the awe since i grew up.

 

[ringo]

yeah, take your point, but I still get the shivers when those main engines fire...

Nowhere near a Saturn 5 but still impressive.

 

[perry]

Are they still doing all that

Must be as exciting as watching at the gate of the local haulage firm sending off another delivery . Space shuttle = space logistics .

 

[mattbrown]

my boss, has seen a launch, managed to get passed security to watch with all the yanks (foreigners are aloud near the view point)