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Originally Posted by freeinhou (Post 234341)

A very smooth launch. We lost voice (communication with the shuttle) before launch but got it back in time to go thru with launch.

I'm not a flight director. I'm one of the mission managers. I was in the control room at the time you typed your message Shelley - we were working on getting voice back.

Tom

Thanks TOM! I got so excited when they said the name Tom that I thought it might be you.

It was awesome. Brought back memories of my childhood when I wanted to be an astronaut and would write to NASA for information.

What an amazing thing that you do!

glad the launch was good, question if I may. Do you get to see some of the items that are going up and how they work such as this DEXTER item.

I was listening to tem talk about it on on nasa tv, before the launch and it sounded rather intersting, sounds like it could help with man hours for tedious repairs or part replacements,

hopefully my cog fog is correct and it was this DEXTER unit i am talking about

Once again Tom, NICE JOB!! ( Insert applause here!!)

Another spectacular launch, and as usual, I held my breath all the way through it!:eek:

One of these days I am going to make it to FL and watch a night launch. I have 2 BILs who live in New Smyrna Beach on the road going into the National Seashore. They have a party on the roof deck every time there's a night launch!

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Originally Posted by weegot5kiz (Post 234723)

The DEXTRE thing is a robotic arm developed by the Canadian Space Agency. We call it CANDARM. I haven't seen the one that went up but we got an exact duplicate in the swimming pool... I've seen that...

We got this really big swimming pool. It's got a mock-up of the space station in it, and we can drop mock-ups of the Hubble telescope and the shuttle in there. 102 feet by 204 feet by 40 feet deep. It's called the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. Closest thing for astronauts to experience weightlessness on earth. We can get 10 astronauts in there with 5 supporting divers each at any given time. Every space walk activity is rehearsed alot of times in the swimming pool.

It's a really cool robotic arm. Not very long but lots of functions.

Anything that goes up into space that passes thru Johnson Space Center, I get to see. If I want to. Some things are kinda boring so I pass... Things that come back from space I got to see too, unfortunately. Like astronaut feces and urine samples.... Ugh!!!!! But I get to see all the moon rocks from the 60's/70's too...

I gotta go to bed. I've been up since 4 am Monday - I'm not even tired any more...

Tom

Thanks for all the Cool Updates!! Hope you were able to get some rest this week :D:hug:

... and I still get to brag about knowing an actual rocket scientist...:D

You da man, Big Tom!