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TVB
07-27-2005, 02:00 AM
Did Monty get to see his first launch today?

http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=136060#post136060

Curious minds want to know...

Betsy
TVB
07-28-2005, 03:02 AM
I don't know if anyone else has been watching NASA TV (you can stream it...the video quality has been great) but I'm watching them get ready for the ISS docking and I'm glued to it.

At work, we bring it in 24/7 via satellite, but I'm really impressed with the quality of streaming it into my office.

The crew just downlinked some video from yesterday and they are showing that stuff live along with having the chatter between Houston and the shuttle, along with a kind voiceove explaining what is going on.

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

Betsy
Vairkjosa
07-28-2005, 03:30 AM
You must not get the NASA channel. It's on cable here. I'm across the lake from JSC. We're watching it on 42" screen :yeah:
TVB
07-28-2005, 05:23 AM
Oh gosh...it might be on a channel locally, but I never turn my teevee on at home.

I get enough of it at work having to stare at about 25 monitors on a wall and another 4 on my desk. At least the four on my desk are true crt video monitors with all sorts of neat inputs and outputs hooked up to them. Neither place gives me 42 inches as one my daily vices :wink:

--oh yeah...there's that stupid little flat thing on the desk, too. I think that one is for my entertainment but I'm not quite sure as it just showed up the other week. Right now, it is in the way when I want to eat dinner and I hope someone finds a new home for it.

Speaking of the day job, I think I promised a photo of the tech room and the tangle of wires up there. I'll try and grab that next week when I am there. I think they got a new AC unit for it this year as I haven't been reminded to go up there and empty it yet. Either that or it was a chore pawned off on someone else this year.

So anyways, listening to this feed...they have to move 15 TONS of stuff onto the ISS and take off 15 TONS of trash. I wonder if the astronauts knew they were really being trained to be a moving crew.