STS-8 Launch

[Jimbob8971]

i was on board the shuttle at the time and my god was it a ride lol it gives me butterflies just watching and thinking i was actually experiencing all that thrust :D

[maxnicks1]

I was there. I was part of the shuttle team. I was the person responsible for the computer systems that plotted the wind data. It was always amazing watching from within Mission Control.

[penfat1]

the view at 0:22 looks like the sts 88 launch in 1998

[booflight1]

I believe he says "Roger, Houston, we're looking at the moon directly overhead."

[eddiea38]

Can't really make out what CDR, Dick Truly, was saying when advised to go at throttle up. It was funny when CAPCOM said, "roger that". I wonder if CAPCOM understood what was said. CDR Truly's response was virtually inaudible.

[elkinsinbox]

I think the launch pad may have been struck by lightning shortly before launch.

[Zoomer30]

Yep they had some serious storm issues on this flight, the launch was delayed at least an hour due to storms in the area.

Makes STS 41-I make even less sense, they damn near launched into a rain stomr on thatr one,

[BigBill783]

you mean 51-I the Syncom rescue/repair flight..yeah they seemed to launch in the rain..rain was hitting the camera on the helicopter on that one..the shuttle disappeared into the clouds and they had to cut to the a shot of the empty launch pad...1985 when they were getting sloppy.

[redhibernation]

This flight was extremly historic due to the fact it was the first mission to carry an African American into space...Guion S. Bluford. He and Barack Obama have definitely gone where no black person has ever gone before.

[muhammadswati]

I hope orbiter Challenger will dock to the International Space Station soon.

[whalers59]

Yes, that was Mark Hess. I guess it was important to him what the time of launch was. He should have taken a page from the book of Hugh Harris...the greatest shuttle launch comemntator ever.

[MDMoery]

He was doing a tribute of another launch that lifted off 32 minutes past the hour.

"Lift off - 32 minutes past the hour. Liftoff of Apollo 11."

[ugowar]

You just can't beat Jack King as launch commentator.

[BigBill783]

I think the ascent commentator on this launch during the ascent was Jack Riley..same guy who did the ascent commentary during Apollo 11.

[BigBill783]

the PAO in the countdown is Mark Hess, after the vehicle lifts off, does its roll program the voice then is Jack Riley..just to clarify my earlier.

[ugowar]

Yes, it sounds like him. He used to be almost anticlimactic taking over from Jack King's launch buildups during Apollo.

[fitmarky]

I was there :)

I saw it go from 3 miles away.

[mianbentley]

Must have been a pretty remarkable experience!

[Ferrariman60]

Looked awfully cloudy...

[silverback1g]

It rained cats and dogs just prior to launch time.

[Hairakhan]

Gotta love Hartsfield's response on the throttle up call -- "Roger Houston, we're looking at the moon directly overhead."

[silverback1g]

The commander was Richard Truly, not Hank Hartsfield.

[BigBill783]

Yes

[mittensisfat]

so the guy counting down is mark hess????