Rocket launch in Virginia will be visible in New Jersey Monday evening

[dogg57]

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/...-monday-evening?linktype=featured_articlepage

 

[46er]

 

[johnnyb]

Watched from a field on Retreat Rd 'till 1905 EDT, nothing. Having spent decades in the space business, knew I could spend all night and still see nothing. Read on Wallops' site it's re-scheduled for 1822/6:22 pm EDT Tuesday. Guess the 23 minutes difference in launch times is to acommodate the Space Shuttle's orbit.
Old, OLD Cape Canaveral joke: How do school children in Cocoa Beach learn to count? Answer: "Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One and holding."

 

[46er]

Tonight was scrubbed due to a sailboat entering the red zone. Rescheduled for tomorrow at 6:22pm. Orbital has a good GE KMZ file where you can check what kind of view you will have via GE. This would have been ours this evening.

 

[46er]

The launch on NASA TV, beginning at 5:30pm

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

 

[46er]

Exploded on launch.

 

[Teegate]

I make parts for that company.

 

[46er]

I make parts for that company.

Uh Oh

 

[manumuskin]

I make parts for that company.

I can't imagine you letting a bad part out the door.had to be someone else

 

[46er]

I can't imagine you letting a bad part out the door.had to be someone else

I hope he wiped his finger prints off it

 

[Teegate]

I usually have no idea what the part is even for so I am uncertain if it is used in launch. I tend to doubt that as they are mostly aluminum.

 

[Teegate]

I am reading now it was a 60s era Russian engine they were using.

http://news.yahoo.com/russians-deliver-space-station-cargo-191254991.html

 

[RednekF350]

200 million dollar project dependent upon 1960's era Russian hardware.
Brilliant !

 

[Boyd]

Guy was probably out searching for stones on the day they made the parts for that rocket.