Discovery & NASA in the news
Jul. 13th, 2005 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omlyIf you happen to have a few moments today it might be nice to spend them thinking happy thoughts for the Discovery. It is scheduled to launch at 3:51 EST today as it was given the go ahead last night despite some minor technical snags. They have a fair weather forecast, but given the last mission everyone is obviously holding their breath. I was just thinking about the fact that I don't really remember the Challenger launch, but I did have a teacher in highschool that had a "Nothing can stop the Challenger" poster up in his room which he kept for irony.
Anyways if you are really interested in watching this progress, Australian IT is reporting that Yahoo will be streaming video of the mission. Other than this story I don't see anything to about the mission on the yahoo.com homepage yet, though a briefly search did find me this (yes I know there are links to streaming video, but I was looking for one through yahoo not the nasa site).
Between Deep Impact and the Discovery NASA has been a lot more in the public's eye recently. (Actually there was a Deep Impact float in my home town's fourth of July parade.) I can only hope this will continue, as before that it looked like budget cuts would have even more severely crippled this work.
By the way read on here for a strange story on a Russian woman suing NASA for mental suffering and "deforming her horoscope".
Anyways if you are really interested in watching this progress, Australian IT is reporting that Yahoo will be streaming video of the mission. Other than this story I don't see anything to about the mission on the yahoo.com homepage yet, though a briefly search did find me this (yes I know there are links to streaming video, but I was looking for one through yahoo not the nasa site).
Between Deep Impact and the Discovery NASA has been a lot more in the public's eye recently. (Actually there was a Deep Impact float in my home town's fourth of July parade.) I can only hope this will continue, as before that it looked like budget cuts would have even more severely crippled this work.
By the way read on here for a strange story on a Russian woman suing NASA for mental suffering and "deforming her horoscope".
