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Five minutes until launch.
It’s a beautiful day, bright and sunny. THe wind is blowing slightly.
A go for APU start.
4:30 and counting.
The support arms are retracted.
You can see the light whisps of smoke coming off of the botto of the shuttle’s engines.
3:00 and counting
The astronauts are initiating O2flow.
It is a beautiful machine, even as old as it is and the problems it has had.
90 seconds and counting
The flag is flying
60 seconds and counting
the tension is building
internal power has been transferred
onboarde computers have control
15 seconds
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
LIFT OFF!!!!!
It’s a beautiful site as it breaks through the sound barrier
2600 mph
The solid rocket boosters are gone
Man, it looks so small
It’s too far up now to return in the case of full engine failure
Halfway to orbit
What a beautiful plume of smoke rising from where the shuttle was on the pad
516 miles downrange about 7 minutes into flight
4 miles a second, 14,000 mph – wow that’s fast
standing by for separation of external fuel tank
main engine cut-off
there goes the fuel tank
Congratulations, boys and girls, you did it!!!!
Comment by Eric Ptak — July 4, 2006 @ 1:48 pm