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Ian

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Rocket Science
« on: 2014-07-08, 20:30:10 »
One of my wife's college roommates is an engineer at Orbital Sciences and they're launching a rocket this Friday for an ISS resupply mission.  The launch is scheduled for 1:40pm out of the Wallops Island launch facility on the eastern shore of VA.  So mid-atlantic folks, keep your eye on the Eastern Horizon this Friday if you want to watch it, or Ed, play hooky from work and go to the launch! :)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/index.html#.U7xUrPldUfQ
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #1 on: 2014-07-09, 03:13:52 »
Cool! Will there be Kerbals on board? ;)
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #2 on: 2014-07-09, 17:46:26 »


Awesome! Yeah, I wish I could play hooky this week, but I don't think that's going to happen.

Hopefully it'll be a completely successful launch, and not your typical Kerbal flight with all the wobbly and explodey stuff. :)
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #3 on: 2014-07-09, 23:57:24 »
Delayed a day to Saturday at 1:14 EDT.  I think they were supposed to roll out the rocket to the pad today but the storm prevented that.
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #4 on: 2014-07-10, 12:41:55 »

Still won't make it. We'll be at a wedding this weekend. Doh!
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #5 on: 2014-07-10, 12:55:09 »
They'll be launching a Cygnus resupply module for the ISS.  The launch vehicle will be an Antares rocket.  You can see the payload and the rocket with payload attached in these photos.



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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #6 on: 2014-07-10, 16:37:47 »
Saturday, at 1:14pm EDT?  I'll be watching...wonder if I'll see anything from Bowie, MD.
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #7 on: 2014-07-10, 16:55:04 »
Quote from: Sir William on 2014-07-10, 16:37:47
Saturday, at 1:14pm EDT?  I'll be watching...wonder if I'll see anything from Bowie, MD.

Sir William, you can follow the schedule here if  it shifts again:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/orbital.html#.U77FO_ldUfQ
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #8 on: 2014-07-10, 17:17:47 »
Ooh, it looks like they'll have a video stream of the launch on NASA TV. I know what I'll be doing this weekend!
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #9 on: 2014-07-10, 18:11:34 »
Quote from: Ian on 2014-07-10, 16:55:04
Quote from: Sir William on 2014-07-10, 16:37:47
Saturday, at 1:14pm EDT?  I'll be watching...wonder if I'll see anything from Bowie, MD.

Sir William, you can follow the schedule here if  it shifts again:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/orbital.html#.U77FO_ldUfQ

Thank you, Sir!  Bookmarked.
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #10 on: 2014-07-13, 16:57:20 »
Successful launch!  My wife and daughter got to be there.  I unfortunately had an MRI scheduled an hour before the launch time and Wallops is over 2 hrs away so I could never get there in time.  If it hadn't shifted to Sunday I would have had some awesome photos!  Doh!
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #11 on: 2014-07-16, 02:47:25 »
My Math teacher who helped design the current gps satellite showed us a failed rocket launch video.
The rocket began to fly off course so they blew it up.
There's something that your inner 9 year old loves when you see a rocket shoot up and explode :)
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Re: Rocket Science
« Reply #12 on: 2014-07-16, 12:51:48 »
Quote from: Sir Naythan on 2014-07-16, 02:47:25
There's something that your inner 9 year old loves when you see a rocket shoot up and explode :)

And that's half the fun of playing Kerbal Space Program on the computer. :)
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