its kind of cool watching this!

edit: i wonder if something bad will happen?

90 seconds

THAT was awesome, looks small but the freaking smoke is awesome beer:

that was awsome

the shuttles are such an inefficient means of transport. if they want to continue the program they're going to need a much more advanced fleet. that being said i'd love to take a ride on one.

5000 MPH ed: ed: ed: ed: ed:

no there going 7000 MPH ed:

That was interesting.

4 miles a second biggrin: i have got to start reading about this shit, just crazy

when the shuttle is in earth orbit it will be traveling at 17,000miles/hour.

that's only 4.7 miles per second whle the speed of light is around 186,000 miles/second, contrary to CNN stating that the space shuttle travels at 18X the spped of light.

4.7 miles/sec seems fast, but on an interstellar scale, this is painfully slow.

sweet launch

I heard one of the astronaughts say "I forgot my Ipod, can I quickly go and get it?...."

i saw challenger blow up...

Well, now my buddy can come home. He's a parajumper and got deployed to Florida for the launch. Everytime they launch from the east coast, he gets deployed for possible rescue/recovery operations.