Atlantis: The Last Shuttle on the Launch Pad - liftoff Saturday morning AEST

[erick (Eric)]

Originally Posted by iceman

Here's a YouTube video of the launch for those that missed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3deA3...el_video_title

Amazing.

Thanks muchly Mike - I missed it. Seemed to be flawless.

[M54 (Molly)]

Originally Posted by Trixie

My 2 yo woke up so I watched it while trying to get him back to sleep!

We just finished baking and decorating our shuttle cake.

What a wonderful idea, to make a shuttle cake.

[Suzy]

Now that's really celebrating the event!
Good on you Carey and great to see the kids appreciating and joining in on this event. Would love to see a pic of it if you took one.

I've got my little space shuttle out- hubby got it for me when he went to NASA a couple of years ago. He also got me a NASA key ring - I feel important when I dangle my keys.

Today's APOD: beautiful pic of Atlantis just before docking to the ISS.http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

[Spanrz (Brett)]

Doing some calc's. Atlantis landing time has changed a bit.

It will be coming over my area at the time of De-Orbit, that is on it's first attempt, the sun will be shining (rays only, sun below the horizon...) and hoping to capture the reflection. At the same time the ISS comes over. There is about 2 minutes of reflective light. So it's going to be one shot at getting any photo's. All I need now is some clear skies....

Usually after the ISS/Shuttle undocks, does the Shuttle follow the ISS when in landing mode, or does the ISS follow the Shuttle? Trying to calculate where the sun's rays will be for the deorbit.

Just wish for once, a deorbit can go right from a weather POV. May have to take a drive somewhere to capture this event. Last chance....

BTW, at 3:15am Sunday Morn Melb time, perfect opportunity to grab a snap of the moon and the ISS/Shuttle transiting it. All up to the weather now. Setting the alarm clock.