LADEE-NASA Moon Mission, Sep. 6/7

[astropapi1]

Please stick a camera to it.

Please stick a camera to it.

Please stick a camera to it.

[Kryten]

Reports are that probability of the weather being out of bounds are pegged at 5%. With no fueling needed with this vehicle, that means there's pretty much nothing that could postpone the launch.

[Motokid600]

No the weather here in the north east couldn't be better. Not a cloud in the sky. It's cold and clear

[Kryten]

Nasa tv coverage has apparently started, half an hour ahead of schedule. Although right now it involves silently watching the completely immobile rocket on the pad.

[Shyster]

NASA TV just showed video of the construction of the LADEE probe. It's made of a stack of four brand-new eight-sided modular probe cores that other than being hollow inside look just like Probodobodyne OKTOs covered by OX-STAT panels.

[Kryten]

About an hour left until launch.

[PakledHostage]

T minus 1 hour. NASA TV's coverage now involves interviews with mission scientists and engineers in between just silently watching the immobile rocket...

[Giggleplex777]

T minus 50 minutes. This is going take awhile.

[PakledHostage]

Weather briefing gives 0% chance of weather violating launch criteria.

[Giggleplex777]

T minus 30 minutes. 12000 watching!

[nettcod]

Watching it now.

[astropapi1]

T -15 minutes.

Edited September 7, 2013 by astropapi1

[lajoswinkler]

Wow, imagine something goes wrong and its nosecone pops out. *evil*

[astropapi1]

Wow, imagine something goes wrong and its nosecone pops out. *evil*

Stahp.

[Jimbobq11]

I am going to watch it launch from my back yard.

[Sma]

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv for those that need the link to NASA TV. Unfortunately for me I won't see it from my backyard here in FL. But I've seen lots of launches from my Backyard, time for other parts of the country to have some too. If anyone manages to get any good pics of it, you know what to do lol

And while I'm watching, I have KSP running in the background, in orbit, so the orbit music is going.

Edited September 7, 2013 by Sma

[Kryten]

Five minutes.

[lajoswinkler]

No, I mean like this.

[PakledHostage]

@Jimbobq11: Take pictures and post them?

[PakledHostage]

that thing doesn't mess around!

[Cooly568]

That thing just hit 100 km and 12000 ft/sec in some 2 minutes. Well the whole first stage is all SRB.

[Giggleplex777]

My stream was buffing right at T- 1.

[Bunsen]

that thing doesn't mess around!

You ain't kidding. I'm not sure whether that's the move-it-or-lose-it ICBM heritage or just the fact that lots of stages means you can have a high initial TWR without excessive acceleration toward burnout.

[Latcarf]

What is the blue spiking graph over the flight plot line?

EDIT: it just went away and i didnt get a screenshot, does anybody know what that was?

[Jimbobq11]

That was amazing. The coolest thing I have ever seen.