# Shuttle Launch Day!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 14, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730 "2008-11-14T17:34:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/1 "2008-11-14T17:34:44Z")
At 7:55 tonight the space shuttle Endeavour will lift off. I can’t decide if I want to try to get close up, or just watch it from my front yard. I guess it is kinda cool living on the space coast. Is anyone else going to watch the nas-holes light this candle? ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/2 "2008-11-14T19:54:04Z")
I’ll be watching the HDNet coverage this evening; it’s probably better than seeing it live, seeing as you can’t get within a couple miles of the launch pad. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/3 "2008-11-14T19:56:53Z")
I’ve been watching a lot of James Bond movies lately. I’m expecting trouble. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/4 "2008-11-14T19:57:33Z")
What are the chances we’ll have a launch? I’ve wanted for some time to see a launch from here, and a night launch apparently gives me the best chance. - Shibb, on the other side of the state ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/5 "2008-11-14T20:13:18Z")
I’ll be camping out watching NASA’s online stream. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/6 "2008-11-14T20:34:31Z")
We’ll head out to the edge of Payne’s Prairie (read swamp) tonight and watch. We’re one hundred fifty miles away and saw it fine last time, but for cloudiness. It’s pretty cool to be out there at night with so many other people, watching for the rocket’s red glare. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/7 "2008-11-15T01:05:19Z")
Well! That was a narrow escape! The shuttle narrowly missed hitting the full Moon! Nice driving, astronaut dudes. Thanks for the reminder, **The Falling Reverend**. Space things are good. We need more things in space. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/8 "2008-11-15T01:34:49Z")
I lived on the space coast in 1986, doing the “go outside and watch the launch” thing, and to this day I can’t watch shuttle launches. I have to wait until they’re over and then go look at the replay after I know it made it. Hooray for going into space! I admit I’ve been so caught up in school that I had no idea a launch was even planned for today :X ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/9 "2008-11-15T01:35:22Z")
And she’s up and away! Godspeed, Endeavour. It’s always been my theory that the first astro/cosmonauts were completely insane. “Fill a huge tank with explosives, strap myself on top, have someone light it, and hope the millions of pounds of thrust are enough to fling me into orbit? Sure, why not!” is not the thought process of a sane man. But my god, I’m glad they had those crazy people who pioneered it, because doing that is _awesome_. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/10 "2008-11-15T01:44:39Z")
Thanks again for the reminder, Reverend. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/11 "2008-11-15T01:55:39Z")
Good job NASA. Hopefully the men on board remember to keep the extra toilet seat down or there will be hell to pay. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/12 "2008-11-15T03:45:35Z")
I SEEN IT! I SEEN IT! I moved doen to Flagler County FL a few months ago. This was my first time seeing the shuttle launch in person. Granted, we’re nearly a hundred miles to the north of the launch site, but it was pretty cool, nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-launch-day/472730/13 "2008-11-15T08:20:27Z")
\*It’s the loveliest show on this Earth that you’ll see; It’s living and real, not just tape-on-TV. So come to Canaveral, and bring lots of beer. When the space-ship takes off we’ll all stand up and cheer! So come let’s go witness the takeoff today While the world’s biggest beach-party cheers her away. We’ll bang the drums proudly and blow on the conch– Leave a sign on your door that just says “Out to Launch!” \* – From [Witnesses’ Waltz](http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/witnesses-waltz.html), Leslie Fish (Space filk is great.)