NASA browncoats boost the signal into space

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SERENITYVAL

Monday, July 17, 2006 1:39 AM

So Shiny!
As for Nasa TV, it is available via the web, watch it all the time!
Here's some links for live camera feeds:

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/video.html

Here's the link for the TV:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

As for the space program, try watching The Right Stuff, movie made back in the early 80s. The music is epic! The movie is epic! It was robbed at Oscar time, sorta like..well watch it and see. I love it. Based on a book by Tom Wolfe, it explores the genesis of the space program. You should also check out info regarding Chuck Yeager, talk about a geninue hero! The man is amazing!

I went to Kennedy Space Center when I was 5, WAY back when. I remember actually getting to go inside the MASSIVE Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The scale of everything is immense. The place is so huge, clouds actually formed inside. They had to put in special units to handle that. Don't get to go inside now, but to go there, and go to the Apollo area, see those HUGE rockets..its humbling. Real humbling when you look in one of those capsules, and realize how much courage it had to take to go up in one when it looks so primitive.

As for Nasa Browncoats, I can't say I'm in the least surprised!

I'm seeing the how,
I'm just not getting the why...
–Mal, Shindig

SerenityVal

PRICEMERC

Monday, July 17, 2006 1:44 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by pdcharles:
That kinda gave me chills reading that...

I'm with ya T... Huge space program freak here...

Does anyone still have the Nasa channel? Is that still around? We had it in NC during the first Mars missions. It was almost like one of those local gov't channels. (on some times, not others)

couldn't say more but that i'm with ya, gave me chills as well. Uh, yea, I believe I still have teh nasa channel.

PRICEMERC

Monday, July 17, 2006 1:44 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by pdcharles:
That kinda gave me chills reading that...

I'm with ya T... Huge space program freak here...

Does anyone still have the Nasa channel? Is that still around? We had it in NC during the first Mars missions. It was almost like one of those local gov't channels. (on some times, not others)

couldn't say more but that i'm with ya, gave me chills as well. Uh, yea, I believe I still have teh nasa channel.

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Monday, July 17, 2006 1:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by serenityval:
So Shiny!
As for Nasa TV, it is available via the web, watch it all the time!
Here's some links for live camera feeds:

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/video.html

Here's the link for the TV:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

As for the space program, try watching The Right Stuff, movie made back in the early 80s. The music is epic! The movie is epic! It was robbed at Oscar time, sorta like..well watch it and see. I love it. Based on a book by Tom Wolfe, it explores the genesis of the space program. You should also check out info regarding Chuck Yeager, talk about a genuine hero! The man is amazing!

I went to Kennedy Space Center when I was 5, WAY back when. I remember actually getting to go inside the MASSIVE Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The scale of everything is immense. The place is so huge, clouds actually formed inside. They had to put in special units to handle that. Don't get to go inside now, but to go there, and go to the Apollo area, see those HUGE rockets..its humbling. Real humbling when you look in one of those capsules, and realize how much courage it had to take to go up in one when it looks so primitive.

As for Nasa Browncoats, I can't say I'm in the least surprised!

I'm seeing the how,
I'm just not getting the why...
–Mal, Shindig

SerenityVal

love "The Right Stuff"

and envy you for getting to go in the VAB

I went to the space center when I was 10 (got to see a night launch, a beauty that has no match in my eyes)

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature

I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.

SERENITYVAL

Monday, July 17, 2006 1:50 AM

One more thing..

A favorite story I heard about the Apollo program, one of the astronauts said, and I'm paraphrasing, "everyone kept saying, to the moon! to the moon! we kept saying, and back! and back! The and back part was REAL important!"

As for going inside the VAB, it was a LONG time ago. I envy you seeing a shuttle launch. It's on my list of things I want to do in my lifetime!

I'm seeing the how,
I'm just not getting the why...
Mal, Shindig

SerenityVal

ZOID

Monday, July 17, 2006 2:18 AM

My 16-year old daughter said she found a Jayne t-shirt, with pic and the quote, "Let's be bad guys", at Hot Topic. I don't know what that's got to do with anything, other than to indicate that we're still growing on this culture...

As to the Columbia disaster, every so often a news bureau will try to sneak the archive footage onto T.V. I have to quickly avert my eyes. I simply cannot watch it happen again...

The closest thing I can compare it to is going to work one September morning and finding my co-workers variously crying or cursing (or both) and then seeing the second airliner strike the other WTC tower...

Both events, viewed live, just knocked the wind right out of my body.

Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.
I still got me an unscratched itch over that 9/11 thing. But then again, I've apparently got a longer recollection than most folks. Watching the news feeds, looks like a day of reckoning may be right around the corner, and high time too. Islamic 'leaders' (as if) are calling to settle the issue "once and for all". Sounds good to me, sport...
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

NCBROWNCOAT

Monday, July 17, 2006 3:15 AM

As a child of the 1960's I've always watched the space program and eagerly watched the launch July 4.

The NASA channel is on in Raleigh on TimeWarner Cable. I've seen it several times when visiting my brother. Also, we just gotten DISH network satellite TV and it's on that service too if you have the 180 channel service and maybe the 120 channel service too. I've watched it several times during this mission.

Does anyone know when they will be woken up? I'd love to DVR it. It's great that the BDM will be honored that way.

LYSANDER

Monday, July 17, 2006 4:12 AM

It is excellent to hear about the quote. This is great for Serenity and FF as well as for all of the fans who have been watching for so long. It is also a very fitting quote for all of the crew members. It makes one feel good about what NASA is doing for the shuttle crew members.

We may never get a Shuttle Serenity, but perhaps when the new space program opens in New Mexico (which is only an hour away from me)we can still have Serenity flying in the black.

Simon: What if he(Mal) tells you to kill me?
Zoe: (without hesitation) I kill you.

CHOO1701

Monday, July 17, 2006 5:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by lysander:
It is excellent to hear about the quote. This is great for Serenity and FF as well as for all of the fans who have been watching for so long. It is also a very fitting quote for all of the crew members. It makes one feel good about what NASA is doing for the shuttle crew members.

We may never get a Shuttle Serenity, but perhaps when the new space program opens in New Mexico (which is only an hour away from me)we can still have Serenity flying in the black.

Simon: What if he(Mal) tells you to kill me?
Zoe: (without hesitation) I kill you.

Virgin Galactic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Galactic

Richard Bransons new money making idea. Well, the first ones called V.S.S. ENTERPRISE, so maybe we could ask him politely to make the second one V.S.S. Serenity???

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Ralph Wiggum(after walking into the 'Adults Only' section): Everybody's hugging!

RODWY

Monday, July 17, 2006 6:54 AM

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Originally posted by Guywhowantsafireflyofhisown:
Quote:
Originally posted by OneManShort:
Quote:
Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
That... That... That...

Shinyshinyshinyshinyshiny!!!!!

I think this is a pretty good summary of my feelings as well.

I second that notion!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature

I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.

I Third It

Seriously thats awesome, I can only imagine what its like up there circling the earth at increadible speed or being launched into the black on some mission to another planet. Dare I say, "It must be the closest thing to serenity as you can ever get, floating up there in the black."

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