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Comment by corford

This is just awesome.

I'm sitting in the middle of the French country side in a building that was built during Galileo's life time with these links up across three monitors:

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=38348

mms://a1709.l1856953708.c18569.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1709/18569/v0001/reflector:53708

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=stati...

Watching all of this makes me realise just how lucky we are to be alive at this point in human history.

Oh and looks like first capture attempt could be as soon as 20ish minutes from now (i.e. 14:02 UTC).

Edit: they've just given a go for capture.

Edit 2: and here's a screen shot of the Dragon capsule and space station arm: http://imgur.com/OWit7

parent corford 14 years ago

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