Today the Space shuttle Atlantis launches possibly for the last time, 25 years after it’s first launch. If you’ve never seen one of the current batch of Nasa space shuttles launch, then your time is running out before they are decommissioned.
Launching shuttles unsurprisingly is an expensive process and this morning the mission management team gave the go ahead to fill the external tank with 500,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. The launch is scheduled for 2:20pm EDT (USA) which I believe is 7:20pm GMT (UK). To see the countdown and find out the latest I’ve embedded spacevidcast below:
Also Nasa has their own television station which broadcasts online and that is available here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
You can expect the shuttle to reach the distance of twenty-two miles upwards roughly in just over two minutes. You can watch a previous mission called STS-131, which saw the Nasa shuttle Discovery launch below:
Related articles worth reading:
The last (planned) flight of space shuttle Atlantis
STS-132 LIVE: Tanking in work – MMT working no issues with Atlantis
#NASA: After 25 years & 115 million miles, Atlantis is now set for final mission
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