MABFAN's Musings - Out to Launch: New Horizons Updates, January 19, 2006

Here we go...

NASA TV is broadcasting live from the Cape. According to the Virtual Launch Center, the Atlas V rocket is fueled and ready to go at 1:08 PM EST. Let's talk!

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	From: mabfan	Date: January 19th, 2006 05:44 pm (UTC)		(link)

We're at T-15 minutes and counting...

	From: shsilver	Date: January 19th, 2006 05:46 pm (UTC)		(link)

Love watching the birds and imagining how surprised they're going to be when the rocket goes up. There was an heron flying by at one point on Tuesday.

	From: mabfan	Date: January 19th, 2006 05:49 pm (UTC)		(link)

NASA TV is showing a beautiful satellite image of Florida.

	From: camwyn	Date: January 19th, 2006 05:50 pm (UTC)		(link)

*crosses all her available fingers*

	From: arib	Date: January 19th, 2006 05:51 pm (UTC)		(link)

The weather check-in remarked that "proton flux is within normal levels."

That sounds way too Star Trekky. :-)

	From: mabfan	Date: January 19th, 2006 05:57 pm (UTC)		(link)

Trend towards the better! Clouds are thinning out!

	From: shsilver	Date: January 19th, 2006 06:02 pm (UTC)		(link)

All systems go pending weather.

	From: gnomi	Date: January 19th, 2006 06:05 pm (UTC)		(link)

	From: mabfan	Date: January 19th, 2006 06:05 pm (UTC)		(link)

I think they said they want a new T-0 of 1825 Zulu.

	From: gnomi	Date: January 19th, 2006 06:11 pm (UTC)		(link)

Now they're saying they can't support 1825Z.