Skywatch

[Palehorse]

Time tuh do muh SNOW dance!

                                                                                  
                                                                     
                                                         
                                             
                                 
                     
         
 
         
                     
                                 
                                             
                                                         
                                                                     
                                                                                 

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[Locutus]

NASA is launching an Orion test capsule (EFT-1) from the Kennedy Space Center here in Florida on Thursday morning at 7am.  The flight will consist of 2 orbits around the Earth, and a high speed reentry into Earth's atmosphere for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. 

To celebrate, they're doing this tomorrow night from 8am all the way through to the 7am launch time on Thursday morning.  I will be looking depending on sky and weather conditions. 

From the KSC Visitor Center Facebook page:


Watch the sky on Dec. 3, if you are in Florida! Here is what we have going on from 8 p.m. Dec. 3 until 7 a.m. on the 4th. There will be a 150 watt green laser beam shooting into the sky from the Visitor Complex. It is 25 mm, as opposed to a hand held, 1 watt/2 mm beam. It is the most powerful laser ever used at the Space Center and will signal both "green for go to launch" and a beacon to launch viewing. Make sure to get photos and post them with the #Orion and #AlwaysExploring. We will repost the best photos and those that are furthest away!

[Henry Hawk]

 

[Palehorse]

NASA is launching an Orion test capsule (EFT-1) from the Kennedy Space Center here in Florida on Thursday morning at 7am.  The flight will consist of 2 orbits around the Earth, and a high speed reentry into Earth's atmosphere for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. 

To celebrate, they're doing this tomorrow night from 8am all the way through to the 7am launch time on Thursday morning.  I will be looking depending on sky and weather conditions. 

From the KSC Visitor Center Facebook page:


Watch the sky on Dec. 3, if you are in Florida! Here is what we have going on from 8 p.m. Dec. 3 until 7 a.m. on the 4th. There will be a 150 watt green laser beam shooting into the sky from the Visitor Complex. It is 25 mm, as opposed to a hand held, 1 watt/2 mm beam. It is the most powerful laser ever used at the Space Center and will signal both "green for go to launch" and a beacon to launch viewing. Make sure to get photos and post them with the #Orion and #AlwaysExploring. We will repost the best photos and those that are furthest away!

If conditions are favorable, please, please, please, take a picture or two of this! I am envious! 

[Locutus]

Will do PH.  The weather is marginal for tomorrow night it appears.   

[libby]

Will do PH.  The weather is marginal for tomorrow night it appears.

Yes, please.  Me, too!

[Locutus]

[Locutus]

Can't see a damn thing and their Twitter account said that the laser is on. 

[Locutus]

Here's what it's supposed to look like at the point of origin.  It's so skinny that I'm not surprised I can't see it from this far away. 

[Locutus]

This won't get you into space, but it will get your name into space.  Sign up to have your name taken into space aboard the test flight of the new Orion spacecraft in early December.  Who's joining me?  I just signed up! 

http://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/orion-first-flight/#name-form

The Orion launch was scrubbed this morning.  Trying again for tomorrow at 7:05 AM.  As a reminder, for any of you who signed up at the link above when I posted it a couple of months back, this is the first flight that will carry your name into space.

[Henry Hawk]

The Orion launch was scrubbed this morning.  Trying again for tomorrow at 7:05 AM.  As a reminder, for any of you who signed up at the link above when I posted it a couple of months back, this is the first flight that will carry your name into space.

Registration for Orion's Flight Test is now closed.  I gotta catch the next one..

[Locutus]

Make sure you catch it the next time because the chip with the names is eventually going to be left on the surface of Mars. 

[Henry Hawk]

Make sure you catch it the next time because the chip with the names is eventually going to be left on the surface of Mars. 

I'm on the email list...I am virtually excited!

[Locutus]

I don't know when the next flight will be, but they're going to open the registrations again.  I also don't know when they closed them for this flight, but obviously they had to close it in time to get all of the names encoded on the chip and have the chip placed inside the capsule. 

[Palehorse]

I don't know when the next flight will be, but they're going to open the registrations again.  I also don't know when they closed them for this flight, but obviously they had to close it in time to get all of the names encoded on the chip and have the chip placed inside the capsule.

I'm on the first chip!