The shuttle is about to go up!

[Mary Kay]

Tomorrow night (Friday the 28th) They have had a lot of problems as Rocket will testify to. I will be outside watching and wishing I could go too! But not with that goofy suit on..it adds pounds! Don't they have something in a nice red with a V neck? I am not a hat person..just a an earbud and a mic will be fine. Now for those shoes...

 

[Jennee26]

Bout time! I don't think that thing can every make a scheduled launch on time. and Marykay - I think you would need the suit to be able to breathe up there!

 

[Mary Kay]

Isn't that why they make AC? Just crank that puppy up at least until we get into space and then turn the heat on..I will bring a sweater!

 

[Jennee26]

Isn't that why they make AC? Just crank that puppy up at least until we get into space and then turn the heat on..I will bring a sweater!

No. You can breathe in the shuttle I think. I don't think you can breathe when your out on the moon without the suit on. Everybody, watch Google Space (if there is such a thing) If you see someone floating around with a red v-neck shirt on and a 901 it's MaryKay!

 

[lashmn]

I hope the weather is better here tomorrow. It is pouring rain right now-makes it difficult to see the launch

I never get tired of watching them even though we are on the West coast and only see the trail. Have seen some awesome sights especially some of the early Apollo launches and of course, the fated Challenger mishap.

Lynn

 

[Mary Kay]

Most of the time I can see the shuttle and the trail. I really love the night launches, I can only see the glow but it's an awe inspiring site!
My cousin had a house on the Banana River. From her balcony she said she could see the shuttle perfectly. I went to her place for a launch but of course it didn't go!
My co worker in the late 80's went to one of the launches that was taking the Hubble Space Telescope up. Her Uncle was E. P. Hubble and she was an invited guest. You got it..it didn't go (again).

 

[moorea]

Oh, I miss living in Florida, we can't see any of the launches here in Montana.

A few years ago we went back home (to florida) and took a cruise out of port canaveral and got to see a shuttle go up as we were setting sail. Then we got stuck out at sea waiting for huricane emily (i think it was emily, about 3 of them hit that month all did damage) to go by. a 7 day cruise turned into an 11 day cruise. Then we couldn't get back into port canaveral, emily screwed up the port, so we were diverted to miami, where I got to spend 2 days at my grandmothers with no power (no AC) because palm beach international was shut down. It gave my hubby time to fix everything at my grandmothers that the huricane destroyed.

You know what, now that I think about it, I don't miss living in Florida (I thought I did until I just told that story) but I do miss the launches!

 

[Mary Kay]

The hurricanes are a big swirly pain! But it beats shakey ground, Santa Ana winds, fires, blizzards, ice storms, snow piled to the roof, flash floods, overflowing lakes and rivers. Hurricanes and tornados hit and run, the rest linger! Yeah we do have fires but nothing like the fires in Ca.!
I will keep the things I know and leave the rest to you guys!

Still a go for the midnight flight! I bet Rocket is a busy bee right about now!

Wanted to add to Jennee..I will just stay in the Shuttle while everyone else is jumping on the moon..I wouldn't be allowed to do a space walk to fix anything, I tend to trip on anything..opps there goes a widget..hope you didn't need it! Plus the fact that i do repairs with a high heel and a butter knife..how much do you think those would cost! $500,000 million a shoe? They better be Jimmy Choo's!

 

[Jennee26]

The hurricanes are a big swirly pain! But it beats shakey ground, Santa Ana winds, fires, blizzards, ice storms, snow piled to the roof, flash floods, overflowing lakes and rivers. Hurricanes and tornados hit and run, the rest linger! Yeah we do have fires but nothing like the fires in Ca.!
I will keep the things I know and leave the rest to you guys!

Still a go for the midnight flight! I bet Rocket is a busy bee right about now!

Wanted to add to Jennee..I will just stay in the Shuttle while everyone else is jumping on the moon..I wouldn't be allowed to do a space walk to fix anything, I tend to trip on anything..opps there goes a widget..hope you didn't need it! Plus the fact that i do repairs with a high heel and a butter knife..how much do you think those would cost! $500,000 million a shoe? They better be Jimmy Choo's!

To all of it. We have fires here too, but they aren't mass Forest fires like out in Cali. I'm still trying to figure out how one started while IKE was over head and why IKE's rain didn't put out the one that started BEFORE he made landfall.

Marykay - don't feel bad. I would trip over a light beam. And I swear my carpet jumps up and purposly trips me multiple times a night and those door frames I get bruises from jump out at me.

 

[gep]

Night time launches are absolutely breathtaking!

We were living in Palm Bay in 1993 (about 40-50 miles from the Cape) and you could see the light slowly grow at the horizon and we watched as the shuttle arched across the sky.

I'd go in a second!

 

[moorea]

The hurricanes are a big swirly pain! But it beats shakey ground, Santa Ana winds, fires, blizzards, ice storms, snow piled to the roof, flash floods, overflowing lakes and rivers. Hurricanes and tornados hit and run, the rest linger! Yeah we do have fires but nothing like the fires in Ca.!
I will keep the things I know and leave the rest to you guys!

I hope I didn't come off as if I was putting down Florida... I spent 10 great years there, met my husband (a native Floridian, which are hard to come by) and had my first child there. I honestly started the post missing Florida and by the time I finished the story about the last launch I saw... well you read it!

As for the rest of the weather talk, we don't have it so bad. All we have is snow and cold, but it has never blown my roof off (OK, we get forest fires to... but I don't remember fires being a problem when I was there, not like here)! When I drove by my old house while waiting for a plane home, the roof was gone! I don't know which huricane did it as three of them hit Florida hard in a short time period (maybe all three). Looking at the old house without a roof made me glad I had sold it!

I never really was able to adjust to the Florida heat... Everyone said give it time, you'll aclimate, never happened! My theory is, you can always throw on an extra layer to get warm, but you can only take off so much before you are naked and still hot!

Please enjoy the launch, I will be thinking of you guys and be feeling VERY left out (but not to hot)

 

[Mary Kay]

Moorea, Don't sweat it! I am not that thin skinned!
I adore Florida with all it's flaws and I have lived all over the place. It's just what you get used to I think. For me the 3 months of tolerable weather in Wyo. was not enough to make me like it, nor was the strange weather in Va., the totally scary weather in Kansas,
The insanity of Ca. no matter how nice the weather was too much for me.(lived both in North and south) I was in Newfoundland when I was a child..the fog is like nothing you have ever seen..you can't see your own hand! Missouri is too cold for me! Illinois is no better.
I will stay myself home and live with it!

 

[Jennee26]

Has the shuttle lifted yet?

 

[lashmn]

Jennee, it is scheduled to go up at 11:59. Will have to run outside and see if we can catch a glimpse of it. Have a feeling that it is too overcast here though.

Lynn
TGIF

 

[Jennee26]

Lynn - If I caught the news right it can't take off tonight either. They said it needs to take off by Monday or wait till October.

 

[Mary Kay]

The Western sky is clear..but the Eastern (cape side) it a bit cloudy..won't matter you can still see the glow as it takes off and the bright light reaching the heavens. I would take pictures but you won't see anything but a white dot! LOL! Plus you can't hear the rumble.

Rocket..we are pulling for you! Tomorrow you can rest!

 

[JennFL5366]

watching the news now they are saying its a go!! cant wait....actually staying up for that!

 

[Mary Kay]

Still watching the NASA channel and it's still a go. The clock has restarted for the countdown. That's what drives me nuts! The stopping and starting. I understand this is the last night time shuttle ever. I hope not. I love them!
I do wish the Enterprise was still flying. That would be a heck of a send off for the last mission.
All the vapor is coming out of the bottom of the rockets now. Talk about a throat hit!
When you wish upon a star...

 

[moorea]

Moorea, Don't sweat it! I am not that thin skinned!
I adore Florida with all it's flaws and I have lived all over the place. It's just what you get used to I think. For me the 3 months of tolerable weather in Wyo. was not enough to make me like it, nor was the strange weather in Va., the totally scary weather in Kansas,
The insanity of Ca. no matter how nice the weather was too much for me.(lived both in North and south) I was in Newfoundland when I was a child..the fog is like nothing you have ever seen..you can't see your own hand! Missouri is too cold for me! Illinois is no better.
I will stay myself home and live with it!

I'm glad you are thicked skinned... but more so I felt bad about putting Florida down because some of the best times in my life were in Florida. We even managed to find a few laughs hudled in our our bathroom the night Andrew came through! If I hadn't hung my hat there for as long as I did, I wouldn't be surrounded by the most special people in the world to me.

I personally did miss the seasons and to me the only season I got there was way to hot for me! I lived in South Florida longer then I did Clearwater. The weather was much more pleasant on the west coast.

PLEASE don't forget to post back and let those of us who are way to far to see the launch (and have to many mountains blocking us any way) know how it went.

 

[Mary Kay]

They just said they have a go to lauch..The Control Room just wished them God speed. So do I. 12 minutes to go!
Final 9 minutes count down has just now started. That means everything is good. So they are ready.