T Minus 18 minutes and counting.

[allworkboy]

This is exciting! Humans will be launched into space for the first time on a SpaceX rocket using a SpaceX capsule .

http://spacex.com/launches/

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[allworkboy]

Shit! Aborted cos of the weather while I was writing this. Now it's saturday at maybe 3:20 pm estern. What's a little weather when the rocket flyies so fast it will go through the weather clouds faster than Superman?

[allworkboy]

They need to play this song during the launch on Saturday

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[LongTimeLu]

Originally Posted by allworkboy

Shit! Aborted cos of the weather while I was writing this. Now it's saturday at maybe 3:20 pm estern. What's a little weather when the rocket flyies so fast it will go through the weather clouds faster than Superman?

What's the value of the lives onboard to a maiden flight.
Everything has to be perfect! No hitches. No 'It's good enough'

[carolina73]

Originally Posted by allworkboy

They need to play this song during the launch on Saturday

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r_QZe8Z66x8

But not Bowie's Space Oddity

[pepo-pepo]

Originally Posted by carolina73

But not Bowie's Space Oddity

Funny that...

BBC actually used Bowie's Space Oddity during 1969 Moon Landing tv coverage:

From Openculture.com...

"David Bowie’s 1969 single, “Space Oddity,” released on July 11th 1969 and inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, both cultural artifacts that anticipated the drama of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The excitement Kubrick’s film and Bowie’s song helped generate is odd, however, considering that both narratives end with their protagonists lost in outer space forever.

This didn’t stop the BBC from using “Space Oddity” to soundtrack their Apollo coverage, “despite its chilling conclusion,” writes Jason Heller, author of Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded. The song’s scenario “couldn’t have been further from the typical cheerleading of the astronauts that was being conducted by the media. No one was more surprised than Bowie,” who commented:

'I’m sure they really weren’t listening to the lyrics at all. It wasn’t a pleasant thing to juxtapose against a moon landing…. Obviously, some BBC official said, ‘Oh, right then, that space song, Major Tom, blah blah blah, that’ll be great.’ ‘Um, but he gets stranded in space, sir.’ Nobody had the heart to tell the producer that.'"




BTW: Check ignition & may God's love be with you today!

[allworkboy]

55 minutes to go

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[allworkboy]

Weather still questionable today

http://accuweather.com/en/us/cape-canaveral/32920/hourly-weather-forecast/2230906

[allworkboy]

4 minutes!!

[allworkboy]

It's so beautiful!