Orion Is In Orbit
Keith’s note: Orion was launched on-time this morning at 7:05 am ET. It is now in orbit. You can try and watch NASA TV here however the online (USTREAM) service has been bad all morning. Only CNBC and Fox carried the launch live. CNN and MSNBC did not. No one is showing live updates.
NPR.org carried the NASA feed through USTREAM with a 21 second delay but excellent quality: better resolution than the NASA TV stream direct and no dropouts. I had them both on in separate browser tabs.
Richard, thank you for the link. Excellent quality. And the views from Orion’s windows are spectacular.
Nice job ULA and NASA! Looks like everything is nominal.
But Ustream is a commercial provider. Shouldn’t that mean it would work perfectly as opposed to a custom NASA solution?
Dude that’s pefect! Great view from the nose bleed seats!
Hey check out the HAL 9000!
So good to watch this, good luck to all the Orion team
Not bad for 10 billion sunk plus billion more each year. I wonder when they will start building complete capsules?
Have to wait on SLS you know . Billion billion billion billion
Hey why does Joe tax payer think space is a waste of money???
The Weather Channel (!!?) had good coverage this morning.
People watch that channel early 🙂 They are actually pretty darn good at their niche, plus have expanded it a bit in recent years with good success.
Liked the views of earth 🙂 30 minutes to go!
Only 20000 m/h. I figured it would be faster than that??
Live video during reentry from inside the spacecraft… Never had that before
There the chutes!!!!!
Just like back when I was a kid!!!!
I’m reminded of that line from We Were Soldiers…
Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An “Such a tragedy. They will think this was their victory. So this will become an American war. And the end will be the same… except for the numbers who will die before we get there.”
…sometimes what appears to be a success just reinforces what is not sustainable…
American capsule. American rocket. American engines. Perfect performance. There’s a lesson there somewhere. Congratulations to those involved and to those who paid for it.
WOW! We are so rich we got money to burn!! Will it ever end? When it does all yo cheerers will find out that you have nothing.