If all goes according to plan, at 6:36 PM local time tomorrow, I finally might have some resolution to some unfinished childhood business.
21 years after the Challenger accident, Barbara Morgan is scheduled to fly on Endeavour tomorrow. She was the backup for Christa McAuliffe in the "Teacher in Space" program. Although she will be more of a crew member than a civilian passenger, in some respects it seems like NASA is finally finishing what they started.
For the latest "play-by-play" for tomorrow's launch: visit http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts118/status.html
The best video coverage, by far is on NASA TV:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
I'll probably be up at the Gandy Bridge watching the launch tomorrow...hopefully the weather is clear enough to see it :). Yeah, I'm a dork.
See my earlier entry on Challenger, Columbia and Apollo 1 here. There's also a link to a video for Rush's song Countdown which was about the maiden flight of Columbia.
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Well... did you see it?
No, we've got high pressure stuck over us. So the air was very hazy and we were lucky to get 5 miles visibility, never mind across the state to the Cape. I did watch it on NASA TV though.
:o(
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