Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch

lord skippy writes: "The STS-100 mission is going to launch at 1:41PM CDT (18:41 GMT) on Thursday the 19th. This time the crew is delivering a "new-generation" robotic arm to the IIS, something much alike the one the shuttle has. As usual, always a great thing to watch. You can watch the live NASA TV feed here at the official NASA Human Spaceflight site or there's a nice mirror broadcast here which has 28k, 56k, 100k and 300k versions of the feed. Coverage should start at 9AM EDT but there's still a lot of launch related conferences, etc. that are shown before then."

Canada

[Diplomat73]

According to CNN Endeavour's crew will deliver and install a 58-foot Canadian-built robot arm on the space station in a complicated bit of maneuvering that will end with a symbolic "handshake" between the two tools. On board will be the first ever Canadien Astronaut. Four countries will be represented on this mission: Canada, Italy, Russia and the United States. This is the most internationally diverse crew ever assembled by NASA.

Re:Canada

[Frederic54]

On board will be the first ever Canadien Astronaut

Not really the first canadian astronaut, there was some even before the challenger explosion in 86... Even a canadian woman have flight in the shuttle last year.
However this will be the first Canadian that will go out of the shuttle, in space, this is a first one.
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Re:Canada

[deangelo]

Um, first canadian SPACE WALK! I'm pretty sure there has been canadians in space before [space.gc.ca].
Travis

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dude

[jbridge21]

dude, the fucking broadcast.com server got slashdotted at the last minute, and cut me off.... luckily, i'm getting the whole thing in high quality on asf recorder. so i can watch the replay, hehehehehe.
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Re:Canada, Europe and Rosaviakosmos

[bgirl]

This is from a NASA press release: "The Shuttle Endeavour lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center this afternoon, carrying a multi-national crew and a complex Canadian-built robotic arm to the International Space Station (ISS). Commander Kent Rominger, Pilot Jeff Ashby and Mission Specialists Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, John Phillips, Scott Parazynski, Umberto Guidoni of the European Space Agency and Yuri Lonchakov of Rosaviakosmos blasted off on time from Launch Pad 39-A at 1:41 p.m. Central time as the ISS sailed over the Indian Ocean south of India. Aboard the station, Expedition Two Commander Yury Usachev and Flight Engineers Jim Voss and Susan Helms were told of Endeavour's launch as it lifted off from the pad. Approximately 20 minutes later, the three crew members took a few minutes out from routine maintenance work and preparations for Endeavour's arrival to watch a video feed of the launch uplinked to them by ISS flight controllers in Houston through the station's KU-band communications system." To get space shuttle updates via e-mail (like you have anything better to do?) follow these directions... ***** NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Status Reports and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to [e-mail]. In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type "subscribe hsfnews" (no quotes). This will add the email address that sent the subscibe message to the news release distribution list. The system will reply with a confirmation via E-mail of each subscription. Once you have subscribed you will receive future news releases via e-mail.