In real news: the Endeavour has landed, so I gather there will not be any more shuttle launches. :( And Orion has been cancelled as well.

Other news: My uber-nerdular club, Spacesim, is starting our simulated space mission today. I get to miss most of a week of school, w00t!

I've set up a twitter feed live from mission control, so if you want to check it out, go to http://twitter.com/SpaceSim. Even if you dislike Twitter, this will be pretty cool.

Spacesim, as I've probably already ranted about, is a non-profit high school organization dedicated to space science, and we run this main, week-long mission as well as smaller ones throughout the year. It is really freaking fun, and thus we're trying to expand to other locales. We grew out of the International Student Space Simulation of the late 80s and early 90s, but one by one, the other groups died and astronaut exchanges stopped. So a rebirth would be incredibly awesome.

...If you actually took the time to read that, thank you.

There's four further shuttle launches. This was the last night launch, not the last launch ever.


SpaceSim sounds absolutely awesome, and I wish we'd had something similar at school...

rubberchickenben wrote:...If you actually took the time to read that, thank you.

I did. And I think it is awesome!

Sounds pretty awesome. Also, pretty traumatizing for someone with my mild level of claustrophobia. :D

My school's way too apathetic for something like that.

Mine wasn't so bad, but since it didn't have anything this awesome, it doesn't deserve praise.

So RCB, you are going to write whatever you do there in twitter? Would be interesting to check it out.

"Launch delayed due to critical systems failures."

"Still haven't launched."

Fail.

:P

Yeah, fail. We launched on Wed., and no one updated the Twitter D:

So, how was your trip?

I was actually in Mission Control... but I ate and slept so little that my body's still rewiring :D

:D. Yeah, I know that feeling.
Go and sleep.
And, what is your job in Mission Control exactly?

Flight Director :D And since I was Mission Control Commander, I could veto the other Flight Directors. Not that I did or anything XP

Wow! That makes me insanely jealous.
Habitat. I like that name.

Technically, it's the Hawking III