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MSNBC: Discovery Launch
Discovery Launch
NASA TV has better coverage! 
EDIT: Just had an even better view from our patio. Wasn't sure how well we'd be able to see the shuttle from Tampa, but it lit up the night sky awesomely! What a sight.
Go Christer Fuglesang! This is the second trip for the first Swedish astronaut, who just happens to hold a few records for most spacewalks in a single mission , "lifting" the most weight in space, and a "world record" for spinning a Frisbee in microgravity.
"Fuglesang, once a Swedish national Frisbee champion, held the national title in "maximum time aloft" in 1978, and subsequently competed in the 1981 World Frisbee Championship. Fuglesang took one of his personal frisbees to the International Space Station. On Dec 15 he set a new "world record" for Time Aloft by free-floating a spinning frisbee for 20 seconds in the microgravity environment of the ISS. It was done during a live broadcast interview with a space exhibition in Stockholm Sweden. It should be noted that the record attempt was recognized by the sports governing body, the World Flying Disc Federation, and that the record was accepted. But since it was set "outside the earth's atmosphere" it was recorded as 'Galactic Record'."
Who said the astronauts don't have enough fun!!!
EDIT: Just had an even better view from our patio. Wasn't sure how well we'd be able to see the shuttle from Tampa, but it lit up the night sky awesomely! What a sight.
Go Christer Fuglesang! This is the second trip for the first Swedish astronaut, who just happens to hold a few records for most spacewalks in a single mission , "lifting" the most weight in space, and a "world record" for spinning a Frisbee in microgravity.
"Fuglesang, once a Swedish national Frisbee champion, held the national title in "maximum time aloft" in 1978, and subsequently competed in the 1981 World Frisbee Championship. Fuglesang took one of his personal frisbees to the International Space Station. On Dec 15 he set a new "world record" for Time Aloft by free-floating a spinning frisbee for 20 seconds in the microgravity environment of the ISS. It was done during a live broadcast interview with a space exhibition in Stockholm Sweden. It should be noted that the record attempt was recognized by the sports governing body, the World Flying Disc Federation, and that the record was accepted. But since it was set "outside the earth's atmosphere" it was recorded as 'Galactic Record'."
Who said the astronauts don't have enough fun!!!
