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Atlantis Launch
Friday, May 14th, 2010 07:40 pmDay 134 Atlantis is now in preliminary orbit, on her final scheduled mission. I've been watching most of the coverage online:
The mission's Commander is Ken Ham, who is one of the astronauts I met in Bradford in September 2008. So fantastic to see him go back into space. Although the launch was almost scuppered by a ballbearing, part of a camera setup in the payload bay. But great to see the launch eventually go so well. Sad that there's no crew tweets (Are they shy? Is Garrett Reisman suddenly shy?) and I don't have my mission patch yet, although I've just had the customs charge notification and paid it this afternoon so hopefully it will arrive soon. And sad too that I'm not at KSC with the rest of the Space Tweep Society, who have been having an awesome time hearing from various astronauts and shuttle people and then watching the launch.
The mission's Commander is Ken Ham, who is one of the astronauts I met in Bradford in September 2008. So fantastic to see him go back into space. Although the launch was almost scuppered by a ballbearing, part of a camera setup in the payload bay. But great to see the launch eventually go so well. Sad that there's no crew tweets (Are they shy? Is Garrett Reisman suddenly shy?) and I don't have my mission patch yet, although I've just had the customs charge notification and paid it this afternoon so hopefully it will arrive soon. And sad too that I'm not at KSC with the rest of the Space Tweep Society, who have been having an awesome time hearing from various astronauts and shuttle people and then watching the launch.
