STS-117 Atlantis | Mission Status
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UPDATED: Friday, June 29, 2007 13:58
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A beautiful liftoff. Atlantis is in the black!
I really love that external tank-cam.
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I'm pointin' right at it!
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
I really love that external tank-cam.
Yeah! That thing revolutionized how we watch launches!
The first time they tried it, the signal cut-out right before SRB sep.
Now it's rock-solid & clear all the way!
Fly, baby, fly!
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The image as she cleared the tower was one of the most incredible I've seen in 25+ years of watching launches, the was she was silhouetted against the sky. Just incredible video all the way.
"If you want to have dinner with the Devil, make sure to bring a long spoon!"
http://wolfsshipyard.mystarship.com
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I uplinked some ascent photos including a picture of our intrepid Browncoat (Steve "Swanny" Swanson).
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Preflight Interview: Steven Swanson
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts117/inter
view_swanson.html
Astronaut Bio: Steven R. Swanson (2/2006)
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/swanson.html
Menu
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/178601main_Menu-Swanson-117.pdf
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You're sure this hero isn't really a secret
agent for Blue Sun? Heh. Love that Bad Astronomer.
This special cargo and two successful launches
in as many days (we had a beauty at VAFB
yesterday eve.) make me so so so so happy...
bun
Frisky Browncoat
~etc. with the turtle~
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Shiny!!
Thanks for all the links and information.
I love the Space Shuttle
I love Firefly
I may have just gotten a little weepy reading through all the photos and blogs!!
Ivy
I've been sane a long while now, and change is good...
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ALLRIGTH! its the Colorado guy!!!
I'm in Denver!!! I love it!!! He's like the 18 one to graduate from the University of Colorado and then go to space! I am so happy,.....my BDH's get to go to space and they get taken by my fellow Coloradian. I almost cried.
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Private in the 76th
...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal
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this is just sooo cool!! thank you for all the info and the links!
Chindi
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Hmmm, I had been kinda wondering why CDR Rick Sturckow used my initials (CJ) as a callsign...
http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/tariqmalik
(Scroll down for a somewhat more relevant entry! 
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Meet the STS-117 Astronauts (A Call Sign Primer)
Posted on June 8, 2007 @ 22:55:55 EDT
Author Tariq Malik
NASA’s seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are circling the Earth as we speak, but an attentive listener may find their chats with Mission Control confusing.
That’s because nearly every one of Atlantis’ seven STS-117 astronauts has their own unique call sign - or nickname - of choice. So rather than Rick, Lee, Patrick, Steven, John, Jim and Clayton, they are: CJ, BRU, Swanny, Danny, JR and Clay.
Some of their monikers have a straightforward abbreviation: mission specialists Steven “Swanny” Swanson and Jim “JR” Reilly II (he’s also a ‘junior’ apparently), for example, or Patrick “Pat” Forrester and Clayton “Clay” Anderson. John Olivas, meanwhile goes by “Danny” and I can’t believe it’s not related to that middle initial ‘D.’ in his NASA bio.
But Atlantis commander Rick Sturckow and pilot Lee Archambault carry call signs left over from their military days in the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force, respectively.
Sturckow’s “CJ” nickname is an abbreviation for Caustic Junior and stems from his apparent resemblance to a former superior officer whose own moniker was simply “Caustic”
Archambault’s handle BRU (pronounced “brew”) is rooted in bad luck.
“I had an unfortunate experience with a Bomb Rack Unit on an F-111 jet,” the Atlantis shuttle pilot explained before launch. Unfortunate or not, the experience apparently made an impression.
So mystery solved. There’s a handy primer on the many monikers of NASA’s STS-117 astronauts. I hope it comes in handy over the next 11 days.
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