Saw it from my house. Now I have to wait a couple minutes to hear the launch personally too. Unlike middle of the night landings I will be expecting it.
Look at those boosters!
Well, I’ve raised a glass. Have a great trip, folks!
Beautiful!
Off they go…
Incredible.
$105bn budget, but with the computer graphics of an entry level games console.
DId I tear up a bit? Perhaps.
Any better and the crazies would say that the entire mission is CGI.
And the sound is agricultural too. Microphones must be expensive.
The air here is a little salty too.
Me too.
Did you see them on Stephen Colbert? Jeremy Hansen joked that NASA wanted a Canadian on board so that if anything went wrong they’d have someone to blame. Funny stuff.
Added — you can find that on YouTube.
Gotta say, now, that was a fine launch, may it be ten uneventful days of everything going to program.
Couple of the stations apparently forgot to mute their speakers and go to headset, or turned up their headset really loud, had noticeable feedback.
Goosebumps. People brought together through curiosity, adventure, science and technology. This will have my attention for the next ten days - not politics or any other negative.
Been enjoying the Spaceflight Now feed.
I admit to being a trifle surprised they made it to ~900 miles without obvious anomaly.
I also find naming the capsule “Integrity” to be real incongruous in the current era. The name certainly predates the current criminal regime. It’s classic high-minded NASA PR. But it sounds badly off-key in the current scruffy era.
Good luck to them all. I hope they have a nominal experience and come home with some great pix & stories.
I’d be curious about the demographic split of Dopers who saw Apollo and those who didn’t. Pretty much anyone born after 1968 or so would have no recollection. Anyhow, I’m fully excited.
The first around the moon mission was Apollo 8 in Dec 1968. The first Moon landing was Apollo 11 in July 1969 & the final Moon landing (and mission) was Apollo 17 in Dec 72.
If we assume most kids only remember stuff from age 4+ a kid born after 1964 would not remember the first around the moon mission and, as you say, anyone born after 1968 would remember nothing of any of Apollo.
A kid born after ~2022 won’t remember this mission. So that’s a 58-year interval between initial lunar loop-arounds.
I’m old enough to remember Gemini as it was happening, but not Mercury. I can recall going out in the yard one evening to look at the Moon while Apollo 8 was outbound towards it and halfway there. And 11, and 13, and all the rest as they occurred.
The feed commentary was doing good until the commentator noted that the cryogenic fuels were kept at “thousands of degrees below Fahrenheit.” OK then! That’s definitely cold!
I was born in March of 1965; as a four-year-old, I was very excited about the space program, and I remember watching coverage of Apollo 11 on the moon (though I don’t remember watching the first step onto the moon). That led to a lifelong interest in the space program: I followed all of the subsequent Apollo missions, Apollo-Soyuz, Skylab, the Shuttle, etc.
During Apollo, my dad was working for a division of North American Rockwell; another division had made components of the Apollo craft. He was able to get for me a big glossy book about the Apollo program, and a set of shoulder patches for Apollo 11 through 17 (through the company store, I am guessing).
Which channel were you watching? NASA, Spaceflight Now, some traditional news network, or ESPN 
'Cuz jocks are bad at physics.