Godspeed Discovery

[scarlettina]

Shuttle Discovery launched this morning (link goes to MSN Video), sending back pictures of, among other things, the shuttle and its large fuel tank separating (link goes to MSN Video)--which I'd never seen before. What an amazing perspective. With the addition of the Harmony module to the space station, enabling the European and Japanese modules to

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[steve98052]

The link didn't work for me. I don't know whether it's a link that doesn't work for me or just flaked out temporarily. In any case, I searched and found this news article. The second link, "Rocket's-eye view", sounds like your link. That look like the same thing? It's very cool, even if the video quality is kind of low.

[scarlettina]

Hm. Interesting. I'm not having any trouble with it. Of course, the video I saw was about ten minutes long. Entirely posible that MSN recut it for shorter viewing.

[scarlettina]

Okay, fixed.

[steve98052]

The first link in your revised message worked this time; the second one was the one I found with the search. Cool stuff!

[willowgreen]

I saw in the newspaper that they decided to go ahead with the launch despite their safety committee's refusal to sign off on it. Have to admit that has me more than a bit worried. All good thoughts to the crew!

[scarlettina]

It seems to have gone off without a hitch so far. Fingers crossed!