SHUTTLE ATLANTIS COVERAGE

It's a rocket plane that basically drops from orbit on atight course
It falls like a rock with a speed of 20000 km /hour

Nasa sight is showing 37 minutes till launch and counting down.
[link to www.nasa.gov]

Seven

Orbiter: Atlantis
Mission: STS-117
Launch: June 8, 2007
Time: 7:38 p.m. EDT

Curious choice for launch time.

1+1+7=9
8+6+2+0+0+7=14+9=25=2+5=7
7+3+8=18=1+8=9

So we have a lot of 9s and 7s
9 is the number of spiritual accomplishment
7 is the number of time
18=6+6+6

Istres is now a GO.

2304 GMT (7:04 p.m. EDT)

Weather at the abort landing site in Istres in France has just been announced "go." That would give NASA the one required Transatlantic Abort Landing site for launch this evening.

Are there any live web cams focused on this launch
if so could you please give a link

Check the first post dude.

Look in my first post for all the NASA TV links.

[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]

T-minus 117 and counting

Coverage from Russian TV during their launches is preferable.

They show the interior of the capsule and the cosmonauts throughout the ride into orbit as well as exterior views. Makes you wonder?

Watch for any UFO's during launch

Anyone else remember Col. John "Shorty" Powers and Mercury Launch Control?

contact with live text
no luck with the cams though
must be to busy ?

I remember Mercury but not Shorty. Too long ago for my brain.

I don't think they should be. Try the links here.

[link to www.nasa.gov]

Was that a small plane that just went acrosss the top of the screen on nasa tv? Did anyone else see that?

Was that a helicopter or a ufo that flew by a few minutes ago??

2324 GMT (7:24 p.m. EDT)

The final readiness poll by the NASA test director Steve Payne confirms there are no technical issues being addressed. The Range also reports "go" on the local weather. And Mission Control says that the TAL weather in France is acceptable.

GO FOR LAUNCH!

Final poll for go or no go flight should be happening in a couple of minutes.

I saw it too, I thought it could be a helicopter, plane or ufo. Looked like a dark blur that went across the top of the screen at a moderate speed.

T- 10 minutes and counting
[link to www.nasa.gov]

Link here for video feed [link to www.nasa.gov]

2327 GMT (7:27 p.m. EDT)

Countdown clock will resume in two minutes.

Once the countdown picks up, the Ground Launch Sequencer will be initiated. The computer program is located in a console in the Firing Room of the Complex 39 Launch Control Center. The GLS is the master of events through liftoff. During the last 9 minutes of the countdown, the computer will monitor as many as a thousand different systems and measurements to ensure that they do not fall out of any pre-determine red-line limits. At T-minus 31 seconds, the GLS will hand off to the onboard computers of Atlantis to complete their own automatic sequence of events through the final half minute of the countdown.

And wouldn't there be a strict no fly zone of anything anywhere near that area 10min before a launch?

Go! Go! Go! Go!!

1:30 min to countdown clock

Wow, and Cris Craft? Yep.. I was a tike back then, would sneak out of bed turn the tv on just to watch the very early morning Mercury launches and get myself grounded from watching TV for a few days because of it. But I didn't miss a single Mercury launch on "live" on TV; always got "caught" just as Mercury was entering orbit. Remembering Jules Bergman, CBS Science "guy"... Walter Cronkike doing coverage as well.

Or was Craft during Geminii?