nasa tv

[mr Mag00]

currently a full length space walk repairing hubble space telescope. amazing to watch and think they are up there at the moment flying through space at 18000+ miles per hour.


here

 

[johnnyh]

it is amazing footage...

would be comedy if they were working away and found Hubble needed imperial spanners and they only had metric

 

[mr Mag00]

 

[cookiemonster]

Wow!!!!!

 

[Rob S]

They're still at it.....don't they realise the second semi of the Eurovision Song Contest has started!!??

 

[Shaun]

Shows how far we've come ... I remember dashing home for lunch from school to watch the first ever shuttle launch.

It was delayed and I refused to go back to school (2 mins from my house) until I'd seem the launch.

My mum went mental, and then resigned herself to the fact that I wasn't going anywhere until I'd seen those SRB's ejected.

A few years on and we can watch it all live on the net ... frippin mervelos!!!

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Rob S]

Shows how far we've come ... I remember dashing home for lunch from school to watch the first ever shuttle launch.
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A few years on an we can watch it all live on the net ... frippin mervelos!!!

Cheers,
Shaun

I watched the first one live too...at junior school.

You can still watch launches live on Sky News...but there's something about that that makes me think they only do it to be there if it all goes wrong

 

[Haitch]

Interesting photo on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site today of the Hubble telescope and the Atlantis shuttle.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html



How do you post a picture? I clicked Insert Image and entered the URL but all I got was this lousy T-shirt the box with a red cross in it.

 

[PaulB]

Shows how far we've come ... I remember dashing home for lunch from school to watch the first ever shuttle launch.

I didn't know people who were that old still walked amongst us! (Says someone who remembers running home from school to see Apollo 8's first ever circuit of the moon!)

 

[zacklaws]

Makes me feel old too. I must have gone to a posh school as we had a TV to watch there and used to watch anything with the Apollo missions. Classes were put on hold the day they stepped out on the moon for the first time as we all sat in the school library watching it.

 

[PaulB]

Makes me feel old too. I must have gone to a posh school as we had a TV to watch there and used to watch anything with the Apollo missions. Classes were put on hold the day they stepped out on the moon for the first time as we all sat in the school library watching it.

You couldn't have been at school in Britain then as the landing was about 11pm on a Friday night.

 

[zacklaws]

Yes your right now you mention it, teachers must have conned us and we must have been watching highlights. Must have been there ploy to keep us in and stop us swinging in the bike sheds which we would always get a bollocking for.

It should also have been summer holidays or maybe they had just finished so maybe it was one of the later missions, but my memory recalls as clear as the day it happened that it was Apollo 11.

The landing itself was on a Sunday night, just after 2000 and the EVA about 6 hours later on the Monday morning

 

[Piemaster]

What surprised me most is just how long the Hubble has been there after the 'Wow' of the first photos it took, and still continues to take. 20 years, I feel old.
I remember sitting in the school hall with loads of others waiting for the very first shuttle launch. We were sent back to classes after it was evident the first launch as abandoned

 

[Flying Dodo]

I'm another one old enough to remember Apollo 11. My dad got me up just before 2 am to watch the actual moon walk. Exciting times!

 

[PaulB]

The landing itself was on a Sunday night, just after 2000 and the EVA about 6 hours later on the Monday morning

I wondered about this but my memory on this sort of thing is usually strong so I have just checked and the day was, as I wrote earlier, a Friday. I have specific reasons for remembering this.