JrzyTmata wrote: 
 I just told Pops this, he said"like they say, you've got to expect losses"

 None of his ever blew up though.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
wow
i missed the launch

however the link below has the live coverage

debris, fire and smoke

something went wrong. AP reporting the rocket exploded after liftoff. but I thought I saw it a few minutes after launch.
there's a fire on the launch site now. info coming in slow

Mission scrubbed because a boat was too close to the launch area
rescheduled for tomorrow

see here

HEADS UP! launch time is in 45 minutes.
Bokey, take pops to a window or something. You  should be able to see the space station fly over too.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
Most of Pops satellites were launched from there.

When I was in 3rd grade though, one he built was launched from some place in California. He let me "skip school" for 2 weeks for that one. I came back with a tan and inspired a lot of jealousy amongst my classmates.

Another launch from Virginia to resupply the Space Station on Monday evening 6:45 est.

 Coaxial wrote: 
yw

there's a linky that has some cool stuff

 miamizsun wrote:
Very cool, thanks. 

mount st. helens from space (1980 eruption from space)



from earth

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That makes it the first Asian country to achieve the feat and the only country to do so on a first attempt

Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan (also called the Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM) entered Mars orbit at approximately 10.30 p.m. E.T. on Tuesday, making India the first Asian country to accomplish the feat.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now the fourth space agency to have successfully completed a Mars mission — joining those of the U.S., Russia and Europe — and the South Asian nation is the only country to enjoy success on a maiden mission to Mars.

Another superlative: Mangalyaan has set a record for the cheapest Mars mission, costing just $67 million. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier claimed that it was less expensive than the Oscar-winning film Gravity, Indian news channel NDTV reported.

In comparison, NASA’s MAVEN, which entered Mars’ orbit a day earlier, cost 10 times as much. (...)

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Flight controllers in Colorado will spend the next six weeks adjusting Maven's altitude and checking its science instruments. Then Maven will start probing the upper atmosphere of Mars. The spacecraft will conduct its observations from orbit; it's not meant to land.

Scientists believe the Martian atmosphere holds clues as to how Earth's neighbor went from being warm and wet billions of years ago to cold and dry. That early wet world may have harbored microbial life, a tantalizing question yet to be answered.

NASA launched Maven last November from Cape Canaveral, the 10th U.S. mission sent to orbit the red planet. Three earlier ones failed, and until the official word came of success late Sunday night, the entire team was on edge. (...)

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