STS-123

[dembree]

Welcome to the the STS-123 mission thread covering space shuttle Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station. This thread will lead up to Endeavour's liftoff on March 11, 2008 at 2:30 A.M. Eastern time.

[dembree]

About 12 more days to go until the launch of Endeavour on the 16 day STS-123 mission to the international space station. Launch Is still on track for a liftoff on March 11, 2008 at around 2:28 A.M. eastern time. For more info go to www.nasa.gov

[Yoti980]

T- 9:23:03:00 till the launch of STS-123

[Cthulhus]

hope that this mission will not be like the STS122 !! On TIME please !:)

[Firefighterdan]

It looks like I am going to stay up late Monday night. Launch in my time zone is 11:30 PM.

[dembree]

I'm confident that the ECO sensors will be no problem.

[Yoti980]

T-0:09:45:00 till launch.... make sure you watch it here if you do not live close enough to see it ... http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=public

The liftoff of Endeavour on the STS-123 mission remains on schedule for 2:28 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 11.

The movement of the enclosed gantry clears the way for the loading of about 500,000 gallons of supercold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellants into the orange external tank this evening.

The current weather forecast calls for only a 10 percent chance atmospheric conditions will delay the launch, with the primary concern coming from a slight chance of a low cloud ceiling around Kennedy.

[Rocket-Man]

Hey I got to watch the launch last night. IT was AWSOM. There were no set backs or nothin.

[Firefighterdan]

I stayed up and watched it also. My 3 year old son and I watched on my 48 inch BIG screen.

[Admin]

COOL night launch!

/Admin

[rokushakubo]

This was the first launch since the RTF that I've missed.  I had no intention of getting up at 6am to watch it!   

Watching the launch from the BBC website, on the throttle-up call, they mention something about no action on RCS messages.  What's that all about?

[wedge]

Yeah nice launching at night. I could watch it live as it was at 07:28 local almost the time I awake each morning

As for the RCS message I heard it also about a LEFT RCS message which I guess is a warning that the crew had on the flight computer or something like that. I also heard a bit about the Flash Evap a bit later but after the SRBs separation, though I did not follow that part as easily

[asterix]

I got up about 5am to watch the launch, amazing as usual. I've just browsed the Press Pack on NASA's site and read about the mission details etc. One thing that struck me was the design of the mission's (STS123) patch. Is it my imagination or is Dextre giving the finger / bird !!! 

[Admin]

....<SNIP>... Is it my imagination or is Dextre giving the finger / bird !!! 

LOL! Quite... shocking!

"Data", out!

/Admin

[Rocket-Man]

What is Dextre?