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Endeavour's last dance

Cargo CultureCargo Culture Registered User regular
edited May 2011 in Social Entropy++
This thing

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is going here

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to deliver this

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and these gangstas are in charge

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Launch is scheduled for 3:47pm Eastern, and can be seen here.
Cmdr. Mark Kelly wrote:
"Flying in space is a very difficult thing to give up. I remember after my last flight thinking 'Well, maybe this is the last time I'm gonna do this.' And, you know, you go a couple of months out and you're like, 'Oh, I really hope this is not the end of my flying career' ... I can't really give this up. I've got to figure out a way to get back into space."


That's about it. Space, motherfuckers.

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  • HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Man that Kojack dude at the bottom looks straight gangsta.

    I can't believe after all these years we don't have anything cooler to take people up to space with.

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  • Cargo CultureCargo Culture Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    HyperAquaBlast wrote: »
    Man that Kojack dude at the bottom looks straight gangsta.

    I can't believe after all these years we don't have anything cooler to take people up to space with.

    That's Mark Kelly, mission commander and husband of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.

    I swear, it's like the photographer said "okay everybody, 'thug life'!".

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  • HyperAquaBlastHyperAquaBlast Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Was putting Wu Tang patches on their space suits going too far?

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  • JustinSane07JustinSane07 Really, stupid? Brockton__BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2011
    There's a group of distracted driving advocates that wanted this launch moved to late at night because they fear it will cause accidents.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    t1larg.endeavour.crew.nasa.jpg

    To Me, My Astronauts!

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Ahaha oh my god I love that picture.

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  • godmodegodmode Southeast JapanRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Dude in the back left is down in the equipment room with the guy on the far left.

    If you know what I mean.

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  • cadmunkycadmunky One hand on the bottle, The other a shaking fist.Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    that fuckin pic. and my intention is to go watch this in the goett auditorium this afternoon. but some senator is gonna be there and the damn thing will be packed, i'm sure.

    plus, i'm hung over and not sure if i want to stand in that sweatbox for 2 hours.

    and another exress pallet goes up!

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  • TuesdayTuesday Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Aw man, launch scrubbed for today. At least 48 hours before another launch attempt.

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Tuesday wrote: »
    Aw man, launch scrubbed for today. At least 48 hours before another launch attempt.

    They realized last minute that the crew photos needed more rap-face.

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  • Cargo CultureCargo Culture Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    DivideByZero wrote: »
    Tuesday wrote: »
    Aw man, launch scrubbed for today. At least 48 hours before another launch attempt.

    They realized last minute that the crew photos needed more rap-face.

    It's my understanding that a decision was made to scrub the ESA's Roberto Vittori and replace him with the standby, T-Pain.

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    DivideByZero wrote: »
    Tuesday wrote: »
    Aw man, launch scrubbed for today. At least 48 hours before another launch attempt.

    They realized last minute that the crew photos needed more rap-face.
    they could seriously stand in the exact same pose and just not smile, and they could hang with NWA no problem

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Cargo Culture wrote: »
    DivideByZero wrote: »
    Tuesday wrote: »
    Aw man, launch scrubbed for today. At least 48 hours before another launch attempt.

    They realized last minute that the crew photos needed more rap-face.

    It's my understanding that a decision was made to scrub the ESA's Roberto Vittori and replace him with the standby, T-Pain.

    That explains the anomalous autotuning detected on the K-band set.

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    OK they re-shot the crew photos. All good now.

    endevuh.jpg

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Holy shit

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  • MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Divide, that is pretty awesome.

    They need to hurry up and get us some damn x-wings.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    This shit is so cool and it makes me so mad that NASA gets shit for funding

    SPACE IS SO AWESOME YOU GUYS

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    John Locke and his band of not so merry men.

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  • MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    They need to send Elton John into space.

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  • DHS OdiumDHS Odium Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

    Shit got scrubbed.

    EDIT: Appears I'm late.

    I'm sure my boss is pissed. We're about an hour away from the launch site, she took her kid out of school today, and took off from work, and her husband flew in from Washington state for the weekend to go to this thing.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Is Dr. McNinja going with them in case space dinosaurs fly near the planet?

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Man, how can you have a technical failure on a penultimate launch? Don't they run tests on this shit beforehand?

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Langly wrote: »
    Man, how can you have a technical failure on a penultimate launch? Don't they run tests on this shit beforehand?

    Nothing ever launches without problems, no matter how big a deal the launch is.

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    MKR wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    Man, how can you have a technical failure on a penultimate launch? Don't they run tests on this shit beforehand?

    Nothing ever launches without problems, no matter how big a deal the launch is.

    :whistle: We got 99 problems but reentry ain't one. :whistle:


    e: oh god


    :whistle: Seems like the more o-rings we come across, the more problems we see :whistle:

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  • AnosognosAnosognos Who wants to play video games?Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    They've been making more interesting crew pictures for a while now. The mission posters have been based on movie posters for years now.

    Don't click on "hi res" unless you actually plan on printing a poster. Some of them are over half a GB.

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Haha seriously?

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  • AnosognosAnosognos Who wants to play video games?Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Yeah, they seem to be the same files they use to print them to put around JSC.

    Edit: though, now that I'm looking, it seems like it's only the one for STS-133. The rest are under 100 MB.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited April 2011
    how do you launch lunar landers and yet fail to hire someone who is any good at photoshop to do promo material for you?

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  • AnosognosAnosognos Who wants to play video games?Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    It is a question that is often asked. The most likely answer is that it's hard to find competent graphics people who also happen to have enough of a passion for space to accept the significantly-below-industry-average pay.

    This is a lot easier to do with engineers.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    Shit, I think those pictures are great.

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  • DivideByZeroDivideByZero Social Justice Blackguard Registered User regular
    edited April 2011
    I'd volunteer for the job with the stipulation that all my mission posters would be like Astronauts N Da Hood.

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  • AnosognosAnosognos Who wants to play video games?Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    NASA Public Affairs Office wrote:
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    Technicians and engineers are narrowing in on the likely source of what caused heaters on a fuel line for space shuttle Endeavour’s auxiliary power unit-1 (APU-1) to fail on Friday and scrubbing the first launch attempt for the STS-134 mission. But because of work associated with fixing the problem, launch teams will not be able to make a launch attempt tomorrow. Teams will meet Monday and are expected to determine a new “no earlier than” next launch attempt for Endeavour at that time.

    Technicians began testing systems associated with the heaters yesterday afternoon and into the overnight hours. Test results indicate the problem is with a power control box, the aft load control assembly-2 (ALCA-2) in Endeavour’s aft compartment. Teams are working on plans to replace the box or any faulty associated hardware. The launch team currently is backing out of launch countdown operations.

    There still are numerous factor to be worked out, but just based on the amount of time needed to do the fix, a new launch attempt wouldn’t happen before the end of the week, at the soonest.

    Managers will hold a news conference update briefing on NASA TV this afternoon. The exact start time still is TBD..

    It's looking like next week, at this point.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I've always wanted to take a last-minute road trip down to Florida to see one of these but I just know there's no way it would ever be on schedule if I did. It's a real pity.

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