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[confuseacat]

...and liftoff! Yay!

I was trying to watch the launch from work on NASA TV and was freaking out because I was having connection problems with both realplayer and windows media player for a good 10 minutes. Luckily, realplayer managed to finally connect about 40 seconds before launch and then crapped out about a minute or two later. That was certainly good timing.

I was surprised at how few people cared about the launch here at work, despite the fact that I'm at an engineering company. Out of the 10 or so people who were in, only one was keeping track of the progress. He was a project manager too. *shrug*

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[the-olive.livejournal.com]

We were all crowded around CBS's stream at a computer.

One of the profs was reminiscing about how back when they were going to the moon, all they could show was lift off and then crummy computer simulations and animations. Now we have the camera on the external tank, the camera on the tower's swinging arm, cameras that can keep zooming in when the thing is mile above the earth, and handheld camcorders on the shuttle. It is so much cooler now. Except these days we're making a supply run for the ISS, which is decidedly less cool than the moon.

[katelovesmeg.livejournal.com]

I wanted to watch it but I was busy, so my mom and I set up to tape it...little did we know my brother had disconnected the vcr to watch a dvd...so in other words...I didn't get to see it.