Monday, November 10, 2008

Shuttle Launch Info: STS-126 (This Friday)

Space shuttle Endeavour will launch this Friday at 7:55pm EST (4:55pm PST). If you've never seen a launch or haven't seen one in a while, why don't you make an effort to watch this one as there won't be many left.

Live launch will be viewable on cable on HDNet & NASA TV, and online at the links below:

Windows Media Player Links
NASA TV 150kb stream
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1369080

NASA TV 300kb stream
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368570

In-Browser Links:
NASA TV 300kb stream
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/stream/nasa.php

NASA TV 500kb stream
http://www.space-sts.nl.eu.org/stream/nasa500.php

As a note, the 500kb stream may lag or not work at all depending on site traffic during the launch so keep the 300kb stream link handy!

Lastly, here are some facts about this launch:
- 155th American manned space flight
- 124th shuttle mission since STS-1
- 99th post-Challenger mission
- 11th post-Columbia mission
- 22nd flight of Endeavour
- 27th shuttle mission to the ISS

On the local side of things, it is STILL CLOUDY and RAINY here. Outlook this week still looks bad so probably won't have any telescope updates anytime soon...sob.

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