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Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch

Posted by michael on from the wild-black-yonder dept.

lord skippy writes: "The STS-100 mission is going to launch at 1:41PM CDT (18:41 GMT) on Thursday the 19th. This time the crew is delivering a "new-generation" robotic arm to the IIS, something much alike the one the shuttle has. As usual, always a great thing to watch. You can watch the live NASA TV feed here at the official NASA Human Spaceflight site or there's a nice mirror broadcast here which has 28k, 56k, 100k and 300k versions of the feed. Coverage should start at 9AM EDT but there's still a lot of launch related conferences, etc. that are shown before then."

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  1. Canada by Diplomat73 · · Score: 2

    According to CNN Endeavour's crew will deliver and install a 58-foot Canadian-built robot arm on the space station in a complicated bit of maneuvering that will end with a symbolic "handshake" between the two tools. On board will be the first ever Canadien Astronaut. Four countries will be represented on this mission: Canada, Italy, Russia and the United States. This is the most internationally diverse crew ever assembled by NASA.

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    1. Re:Canada by deangelo · · Score: 2

      Um, first canadian SPACE WALK! I'm pretty sure there has been canadians in space before.
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  2. dude by jbridge21 · · Score: 2

    dude, the fucking broadcast.com server got slashdotted at the last minute, and cut me off.... luckily, i'm getting the whole thing in high quality on asf recorder. so i can watch the replay, hehehehehe.
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