STS-118 Endeavour Shuttle Launch - 9th August 08:36am - Page 2

iceman (Mike) · #21 21-08-2007, 06:48 PM

You may be right, Neil.. I went off the PDF on the NASA TV schedule, but they may not have updated it after the shuttle is being brought home a day early.

Neilzstar · #22 21-08-2007, 07:52 PM

Mike, I am determined not to miss it, So I will be watching all through anyway. For others who may be interested, further figuring (if I am right)gives the de-orbit burn at 1.25 am AEST Wed., with the landing at 2.32 AEST Wed. USA central time is 14 hours behind AEST, as I see it. Listed Central times are 11.25 de-orbit and 12.32 landing. But I would appreciate confirmation and/or correction. Might mean a lot to those of us setting alarms etc., Cheers and Good Luck

davidpretorius · #23 21-08-2007, 09:42 PM

as at about 9.30pm, they were saying on nasa tv, that the 1st window for landing is in around 4 hrs... so it loks like neil is right

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #24 21-08-2007, 10:43 PM

Yep, they are saying it comes in to land in a few hours, and if it misses the first opportunity it has to fly directly over Hurricane Dean on its 2nd attempt.

They don't think it will affect them.

If I was in the shuttle I would like more than 'We think it won't affect you'!!!!

okiscopey (Mike) · #25 21-08-2007, 11:20 PM

Landing at 11:32 Central Time just announced. That translates to 02:32 AEST if I got the calculations right ... just over 3 hours from now. Set your alarms!

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #26 21-08-2007, 11:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by okiscopey

Landing at 11:32 Central Time just announced. That translates to 02:32 AEST if I got the calculations right ... just over 3 hours from now. Set your alarms!

Thanks Mike.

Time to turn on NASA-TV

iceman (Mike) · #27 22-08-2007, 07:27 AM

Safe landing, congrats to the mission crew!

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #28 22-08-2007, 08:39 AM

I fell asleep

erick (Eric) · #29 22-08-2007, 10:07 AM

Yep, I slept through it. Take-off is more fun! I saw that live! NASA TV is very good.

erick (Eric) · #30 23-08-2007, 02:47 PM

Just searching for stuff on one of my favourite cartoonists, Ron Cobb. Came across this:-

http://www.roncobbdesigns.com/Offici...S-4.213.0.html

ps. if anyone out there has copies of Ron Cobb's books of cartoons from the early 70s, long out of print and long lost during my moves, I'd be interested in borrowing them. There are some funny cartoons on Viking's arrival at Mars.