General / Off-Topic Horizons is not the only Launch today - Watch 'live' here

[Nutter]

While we wait why not check out the Soyuz Launch at 11am today

Live Link

[video]http://www.ustream.tv/channel/6540154[/video]

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/6540154

 

[Certacito]

Good luck Major Peake, you lucky sod! We will pretending to land on rocks in space this Christmas, he will be spending Christmas looking down from the ISS and trying to spot Santa using NORADs tracker

 

[Ozric]

Really quite nervous and excited at the same time. Definitely watching this while I'm at work though, no chance I'd miss it

 

[Kodiakyuggly]

Amazing to have a brit on the ISS... however have you seen the Russian going up with him? Yuri Malenchenko 53 years old, 28 yearsr of service, 5 space flights and 5 space walks. Not a bad chap to have on board!

 

[CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned]

Ground control to Major Tim,
Commencing countdown engines on.

 

[Ozric]

Ground control to Major Tim,
Commencing countdown engines on.

2 people with the same avatar was bad enough, but 3... I don't think my brain can cope

 

[Wasp0]

Yes, i'll be watching and as i am in Sol, i may just pop in for a coffee this evening, though i suspect he will be busy un-packing and getting the Christmas dec's up!!

Fly Safe Cmdr Tim!

 

[Sir.Tj]

Looking forward to this, watched the Horizons special on him yesterday.

Have a safe trip Tim.

 

[Futuristic Kung Fu]

2 people with the same avatar was bad enough, but 3... I don't think my brain can cope

In that case, see this thread:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=211569


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Yaffle locked my own thread on the topic because it came 1 minute after this one. Make of that what you will.

At any rate.......GOOD LUCK TIM PEAKE !!

Time doesn't matter to much. It's how many posts there are and how informative the first post is.

 

[CMDR JP76]

Good luck Major Tim Peake!

God speed CMDR o7

 

[Stupid_hippy]

So many people wishing the British guy good luck...what about the other two?

Don't they deserve good luck as well?

Good luck Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko..

Not that the Russian guy needs luck..as kodiakyuggly points out, he's badass.

 

[Black-Bart]

Tim Peake has chosen three music tracks that will played into his headset during the launch. Radio Sidewinder will be playing those three tracks around the same time.

Fly safe commander.

 

[Nutter]

A wealth of detail and information in the pre-launch footage

Safe trip commanders!

 

[Stupid_hippy]

Interesting..........one moderator contributes to a thread

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=211725

when another moderator locked a similar thread because it wasn't "ED related"

Clearly it wasn't in the right forum..

[h=1]Forum: Dangerous Discussion[/h] Discuss anything relating to Elite: Dangerous




Mr mod was spot on.

 

[Sir.Tj]

Interesting..........one moderator contributes to a thread

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=211725

when another moderator locked a similar thread because it wasn't "ED related"

Very interesting indeed.

However as you may have noticed this thread is in the off topic section of the forum and not in the ED section.

 

[CMDR JP76]

Tim Peake has chosen three music tracks that will played into his headset during the launch. Radio Sidewinder will be playing those three tracks around the same time.

Fly safe commander.

Nice !

Will listen in, thanks CMDR!

For UK members, put BBC 1 on now.......Stargazing Live Tim Peak Launch.

o7

 

[Wasp0]

Interesting..........one moderator contributes to a thread

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=211725

when another moderator locked a similar thread because it wasn't "ED related"

Don't get so Miffed that 'Your Thread' was locked out, maybe if you posted in the right section it may not have been!

 

[Erik Marcaigh]

Oh my goodness, that clearly makes all the difference.

To some. Not to me.

Others might say "How small minded do you have to be to lock a thread wishing the best of luck to a British astronaut regardless of whether it's in the the right section or not?"

Very?

Because rulez.

And stay 100M/s or slower around stations.

 

[CMDR Heisenberg B. Damned]

Oh my goodness, that clearly makes all the difference.

To some. Not to me.

Others might say "How small minded do you have to be to lock a thread wishing the best of luck to a British astronaut regardless of whether it's in the the right section or not?"

Very?

OK it's not a nice feeling having a positive thread closed but moderators have to try and keep the forums sane, which on a go live day is bad enough at the best of times - they're also volunteers not paid employees.

I'm sure like the rest of us you just want to wish all the astronauts well which is what this and your thread is really about.

14 mins to go - good luck all.

 

[Futuristic Kung Fu]

Oh my goodness, that clearly makes all the difference.

To some. Not to me.

Others might say "How small minded do you have to be to lock a thread wishing the best of luck to a British astronaut regardless of whether it's in the the right section or not?"

Very?

Hey, one of my threads got closed because it was a duplicate of a thread that was started ten minutes AFTER. Did I complain? No, because I believe there is a rule against publicly contesting a mods actions and it wasn't that important anyways . Back on topic, Gentlemen! It would be a shame if both threads had to be closed!

Good luck! (And not only to that British guy!)