[MilCom] Shuttle launch information

[Michael Comer]

One other item, the launch window is only 5 minutes.

Weather forecast as of today has a 30% of rain for Saturday.
NASA weather brief:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/ksc_launch_weather_1_transcript.html

Here is link to watch NASA TV via the web for those without satellite or not
on their
local cable.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Mike Comer
Titusville, FL
http://home.earthlink.net/~mikets28/Mywebsite

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Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:20 PM
Subject: [MilCom] Shuttle launch information


> It is Tues, 12:16am EDT (1616z).
>   The astronauts for Saturday's Space Shuttle launch arrived at  the KSC
> Shuttle Landing Facility in their T-38s this morning. NASA 912 was the
first of
> them that I heard arrive, and that was a 10:05am EDT landing. He was
followed
> quickly by NASA 906, NASA 962, NASA 914 and NASA 910 (YL). The inbound
> handoff sequence for most of the aircraft was: 133.9, 128.225, 126.525,
124.8,
> 134.95, 132.65, 128.55.
>   The countdown clock will begin at 5pm EDT tomorrow (Wed.).
>   On Friday, at 7pm EDT, the protective Rotating Serving  Structure will
be
> rolled back from the STS on the pad.
>   On Saturday, at 5:53am EDT, fueling will begin, and at 11:58am EDT,  the
> astronauts will leave their quarters.
>   The shuttle is set to lift off at 3:49 pm EDT Saturday  (1949z).
>   All of these events will probably be televised on the NASA TV  channel.
>
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