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WORLD WIDE WEB — On Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 at 6:36PM EDT, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will launch the NASA STS-118 Space Shuttle mission. Join Rocketry Planet for a live webcast of this launch and chat with your friends as we watch the shuttle blast into space. Webcast/Launch Schedule: 08:30AM EDT: Launch coverage begins at Kennedy Space Center
06:36PM EDT: Launch of STS-118 mission
06:44PM EDT: STS-118 main engine cut off
06:46PM EDT: Launch coverage switches to Johnson Space Center
06:52PM EDT: Launch coverage switches to Kennedy Space Center
06:52PM EDT: Additional STS-118 launch replays In support of the launch, Rocketry Planet has made arrangements to broadcast the launch live in a sponsored NASA-TV webcast in Rocketry Planet's chat rooms. Since the STS-118 launch coverage begins at 8:30AM EDT, but the launch doesn't actually take place until 6:36PM EDT, the webcast's chat session will officially begin at 6:00PM EDT. The webcast video/audio feed will be available from 8:30AM EDT, so members are free to join in at any time they wish. The webcast is only available to registered users, but registration is easy and free. You must be logged in prior to entering the webcast and you must enter the special NASA STS-118 Live Webcast link to view the webcast. To enter the webcast, simply click the link below: Enter the NASA STS-118 Live Webcast The NASA STS-118 Live Webcast is brought to you by Yahoo!
08-08-2007 09:27 PM
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The webcast of STS-118 today was awesome. The user participation was quite phenomenal. It was good to see that many rocketeers gathered in one place to celebrate another successful shuttle launch. And, the event was an appropriate celebration of Rocketry Planet's first year. Congratulations to Darrell and Rocketry Planet, and a big thank you for making not only this website, but this community and the features you provide available to us all.
Timing is everything. It's interesting watching the ascent of Rocketry Planet. According to the counter on the bottom of the forums page, Rocketry Planet enjoyed 143 simultaneous users online this afternoon just 7 minutes before NASA launched the shuttle. 143. Interestingly enough, just a month ago, that number would have eclipsed the most users online at one time for the Rocketry Forum. But the recent changes to their robots.txt file that unleashed the search engine bots on the site sent their number to a totally bogus value. Otherwise, Rocketry Planet would be the leader in that respect. As it is, Rocketry Planet is still the leader, but there are those who would argue the semantics of it because of their bogus number.
Timing is everything, but the facts are still the same. Rocketry Planet is in a league all of its own. Thanks again for letting us be a part of it.
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