--- On Fri, 7/8/11, saguaroastro@cox.net saguaroastro@cox.net wrote:
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The glitch was a non confirmation of the gaseous vent arm retract. They turned a camera to it and validated that it had in fact retracted and resumed the count from there. about a 2 minute hold.
I heard that being mentioned.
I was surprised, however, that the count resumed at T-31 seconds where it was halted. I thought that it would be restarted at a point earlier in the sequence, such as T-9 minutes. I don't ever recall a launch, even as far back as Mercury, in which a countdown was stopped so close to ignition and then continued from where it left off.
A nominal launch, good enough to eliminate the OMS-1 Burn.
I noticed that.
It's too bad that there was no live TV transmission of the ET separation seen from the tank itself. I always liked the view of the orbiter heading off.
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There was a glitch just as control was about to be
handed over to the on-board computers but, others than that, it was a good launch.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL