In a message dated 7/26/05 2:37:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, astro@pgog.net writes: << I think shuttle launched around 1439z, but I looked around NASA site and could not find that info. anyone know the official time. >> I heard a commentator on MSNBC, just as they were getting ready to come out of the nine-minute hold, that NASA made a slight adjustment to the liftoff time of six seconds and that they were now aiming for a launch "straight-up at 10:39 a.m. EDT" I assume that "straight up" meant 10:39:00, as opposed to 10:39:06. It seems that MSNBC adjusted their on-screen clock for this, because there indeed was about a six-second difference between their clock and those of CNN and FOX. Once they got below 9 minutes, all three networks trained their cameras on the big countdown clock at KSC as the "official" time. -- joe rao ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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