Discovery might be visible over europe tonight.

[ozzy72]

It'll all go well or it'll all go all over Florida... what time is the lift-off in GMT?

[Craig.]

I can tell you its about 3:50 eastern time in the US. its 5 hours behind the UK so thats 8:50 local time here. And i dont know how far ahead you are.

[Hagar]

Typically it's been overcast here all afternoon after several days of cloudless blue skies. This always seems to happen when there's something interesting to see. If the sky was clear it wouldn't be dark enough to see anything by 8.50 pm anyway.

[Craig.]

i know it will be visable at about 10:40 tonight in the southwest sky for about 1 minute in birmingham. but like Doug, its clouding over here. Typical.

[ozzy72]

Well after nearly 3 days of non-stop rain we've got blue skies! So add one hour from Britain is 21.50!

[Craig.]

Launch cancelled no news on why other than technical reasons.

[littleport2003]

I was looking forword to seeing the launch,
oh well I supose i'll have to go make my own and launch that intead

[Felix/FFDS]

Launch cancelled no news on why other than technical reasons.

"NASA was forced to call off today's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Discovery because of a faulty fuel tank sensor. "

Also, there was a 60% chance of having the flight scrubbed because of weather.

[ozzy72]

Bum! I had just got the camera out and cleaned and everything

[TacitBlue]

Heres an article about it if you guys are interested. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8556304/
You can tell it was hastily written because it repeats about half way through.

[beaky]

Bum! I had just got the camera out and cleaned and everything

Keep it handy... she'll be on her way soon enough. What I heard about the sensor fault is that last time it happened, they eventually stopped trying to suss it out and launched anyway- without mishap. So despite the extra air of precaution with this launch, they may do the same again, as long as they feel very confident that there won't be any cutoff timing issues that could cause trouble if those sensors aren't 100% right. But then again, they've got until the end of the month before they lose the window...
 I'll be on a jobsite with  huge projection displays the next coupla days- hope I can get a cable tuner up on  one of them for the launch coverage if they go for it this week...

[Craig.]

They are saying saturday is the next probable date. With Tropical storm emily rolling in. It may or may not hit florida. As it stands it wont but all it takes is a slight shift. So no doubt they are watching that closely too.

[RichieB16]

One person said "Saturday at the earliest" and the other souce said "no sooner than Monday" so it will llikely be early next week before another launch is attempted.  They have until July 21 to launch or they will have to wait until early September.

[ATI_7500]

Launch cancelled no news on why other than technical reasons.

Yeehaw! And I nerly broke down because I thought that I had missed the launch.

[-sam-]

Damn.. the weather here was perfect yesterday. The stars
were absolutely clear.

Does anyone know if it can be spoted here (europe)
on other launch dates ? I mean is it always visible over europe when launched ? Cause this is first time i heard about a shuttle can be seen over europe after launch.
Would be a pitty if not.