Dobbs Covers Another Launch in HD
Greg Dobbs on HDNet
My old and good friend and colleague, Greg Dobbs, sent around this message this morning about Monday night’s launch of space shuttle discovery that he will be covering live on HDNet. With his permission, I wanted to share the message here and also talk up his new book:
Late Monday night (actually Tuesday morning in Florida), I’ll be on the air again from the Kennedy Space Center with the launch of space shuttle Discovery. Liftoff is set for 1:36:02 AM EDT Tuesday morning (yes, you read that right, it is timed to the tenth of a second), so we’ll broadcast from 1 AM to 2 AM EDT Tuesday, which is midnight to 1 AM Central Time, 11 PM to midnight Monday night in the Mountain Time Zone and 10-11 PM in the Pacific.
If you’re thinking about the six-count-em-six delays last time for Endeavour … so am I! It took me only three trips to Florida to see that baby go up. But two pieces of good news for NASA: the countdown started last night and so far, so good. And, NASA’s weather experts put the odds of a launch at 70%. I’ve seen them go up when the odds weren’t half that good.
Although it’s not the primary piece of cargo, one of the devices Discovery is carrying to space is the COLBERT treadmill, which is named after Stephen Colbert. You might remember reading that he staged a write-in from his viewers during NASA’s contest to name the newest U.S. module on the International Space Station.
He won, but NASA wasn’t willing to go that far; the second-place entry, “Tranquility,” got the nod. However, with about as much humor as you can expect from a government agency, they decided to put his name on the treadmill. But only by doing what anyone might expect them to do: they turned it into an acronym. So, COLBERT stands for “Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill.”
~ Greg
HDNet covers all shuttle launches live. It’s on DirecTV, Dish Network, Comcast (in most of the country) and most other cable systems in the US and Canada.
Greg’s new book, “Life in the Wrong Lane,” has just been published by iUniverse and will soon be available at book sellers everywhere. It’s the inside scoop on life and adventures as a television correspondent.
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Great blog here. pictures too. thanks.