Space shuttle Discovery landing later this afternnoon

[wendilla]

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:43:21 -0600


Space shuttle Discovery’s wakeup song for landing day was “Coming Home” by Gwyneth Paltrow, played for the entire crew and selected by the space station flight controllers in Mission Control. Commander Steve Lindsey and his five crew members will begin deorbit preparations a little before 7 a.m. for their planned landing at 11:57 a.m. EST at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

I estimate it will land our time at 4 57pm. Please correct me if I am wrong with time. Go to NASATV to see live landing

[AB Editor]

Gwyneth Paltrow! Poor sods.

Do mission control not like them very much?

Is this the right link Wendilla: http://www.nasa.gov/m...dia/nasatv/index.html ?


Spare Ed

[yogi-bear]

Morning Wendilla and Spare Ed,

Oh gawd.....Gwyneth Paltrow's worbling....hope the crew have got a hefty supply of cotton wool......lol.

Thanks for the word up, wendilla....will try to remember to catch it on NASATV. x

Looks like the right link, Spare :0)

[joggerjayne]

Gwynneth Paltrow sings ??

[yogi-bear]

Hey JJ :0) x

Not very well and if you can call it that......delusions of grandeur being married to Chris Martin, i suspect.....lol

[wendilla]

Yes AB ED thats the link but you may not get much on it till nearer the time

[joggerjayne]

Right. So Chris Martin is ... ?

[joggerjayne]

Oh ... HIM !!

(I just Googled him)

[yogi-bear]

LOL......I bet he'll be honoured you googled him, JJ. :0)

[yogi-bear]

Just found this, Wendilla, which may be interesting........especially about the message from William Shatner ( Kirk was my favourite Captain of the Enterprise )

http://www.pcworld.co...or_the_last_time.html

[wendilla]

Thank you ED for the Sticky Post. I put this up early as I have to go out but will be back in time to see the landing.

[ChuckFickens]

Does mission control get to choose what music the crew wake upto every day?

Oh that could be such a fun job :)

And this morning for everyone we have.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE

[yogi-bear]

Brilliant, Chuck

....guaranteed to get 'em up rather sharpish.......lol

[ChuckFickens]

I think I'd nip outside until it was over if they played that to me :)

[squarebear]

I'm puzzled as according to this link, the shuttle will be flying over the UK at 6:36pm tonight:
http://spaceflight.na...ion=England&city=Hull

[yogi-bear]

LOL.....I'd go and play with HAL.........whlst blasting out Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss on my headphones, till the frog croaks no more :0)

[NazNomad]

"Gwyneth Paltrow! Poor sods"
"Oh gawd.....Gwyneth Paltrow's worbling."
"Gwynneth Paltrow sings ??"


BLASPHEMY ... BURN, DAMN YOU, BURN IN THE PIT OF X-FACTOR

[yogi-bear]

LOL.......Naz :0)

Think you must have the hots for her then, eh?.....she's a great and very pretty actress.....but singing?.......jury's still out.....lol

[sir.prize]

Discovery will be landing in 15 minutes time - at 3.57p.m.

[bednobs]

thats the space station sb, not the shuttle

[sir.prize]

Discovery burn enabled - heading for landing

Watch here - http://www.nasa.gov/m...dia/nasatv/index.html