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April 29, 2011 12:53 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QxnwH15xlxw/space-shuttle-endeav-2.html
Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-134 launch: BB liveblog on-site, SpaceFlightNow webcast with Miles O'Brien
Shuttle Endeavour launch webcast hosted by Miles O'Brien at SpaceFlightNow.com [11:52am ET] We're seeing a cavalcade of tweeters walking out of the NASA Tweetup tent, heading off to greet the STS-134 astronauts. Pretty cool to see NASA exploring new ways to connect with people through Twitter and the like. Follow the Tweetup with the hashtag #nasatweetup. [11:41am ET] I asked this last night over Twitter, and I'll ask you good folk here: What do atheists say when they want to wish someone (or someshuttle) a good flight? "Sciencespeed"? Your thoughts in the comments, please. [11:34am ET] Today's scheduled launch is the penultimate launch for NASA's shuttle program; walking around KSC today, I'm hearing much nostalgia in snippets of conversations among journalists and NASA folk. As you drive around the towns surrounding Cape Canaveral, signs on local businesses—pizza parlors, strip clubs, churches—are all wishing "Godspeed Endeavour." What will happen to these communities, the countless mom and pop enterprises that depend on space industry and concomitant tourism? What happens to these thousands of space workers when the shuttle program ends? Some will be swooped up by private space industry, but how many will, say, SpaceX employ? Much talk of 15% or greater unemployment, property values plummeting, and an ambient sense of the rug being pulled out from under a place that calls itself the Space Coast, a place with a glamorous history during the Apollo years. Those years here are over. [11:30am ET] Thanks for tuning in to Boing Boing's royal wedding coverage: the marriage of a spacecraft with her sky. [11:26am ET] The continuing gusts (whoosh, there's another one!) we're feeling here at Kennedy Space Center in Florida are but one challenge. Meteorologists also keeping an eye on the iffy conditions at emergency runways in Europe, where the shuttle would make an emergency landing if there were problems. SpaceFlightNow: The outlook is a chance of showers at the Zaragoza and Moron runways in Spain. The Istres landing site France had been promising, but the most recent update from meteorologists calls for a "slight chance" of showers there today. [11:06am ET] The weather is the story out here today, and specifically: they'll be watching the wind. Gusts are so forceful out here that my Mac Air just blew right off the table and hit the ground when I stepped away for a moment. More importantly: will the wind affect the launch? Miles just spoke to the chief weather officer for NASA. 15 knots is the maximum threshold NASA will be allow, and some forecasts are calling for 18 knots. Last night, there were dramatic lightning storms and menacing clouds around KSC; the last of the storm bands from the powerful series of fronts that spawned devastating tornadoes throughout the south....
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