'Rock and Roll Discovery'

Space Shuttle Discovery NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

 

Lift Off March 15, 2009  7:43 p.m. EDT

Commander Lee Archambault leads Discovery's crew of seven, along with Pilot Tony Antonelli, and Mission Specialists Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata on mission STS-119 to the International Space Station.

Discovery 55 seconds into launch

(photos NASA TV)

Video of March 15, 2009 Discovery Lift Off

 

NASA - Shuttle Mission Main Page

Comments

[Debra Estep]

IF anyone is a Star Trek fan.... ( LIKE ME ) you will recall
this conversation from the Star Trek movie:

First Contact (Paramount Pictures, 1996)

William Riker: Everybody ready to make some history?
Geordi LaForge: Always am.
Zefram Cochrane: I think I forgot something.
William Riker: What?
Zefram Cochrane: I don't know, probably nothing.
Deanna Troi: Begin ignition sequence.
Zefram Cochrane: Oh God, now I remember!
Geordi LaForge: What?
Zefram Cochrane: Where is it?
Geordi LaForge: What?!
Zefram Cochrane: We can't lift off without it.
William Riker: Geordi, we've got to abort!
Zefram Cochrane: No, no, wait I've found it.
[Troi continues countdown]

Zefram Cochrane: Let's rock 'n' roll!

[plugs a small disc into a slot in the Phoenix's control panel]
Deanna Troi: Two…one…ze-AAH! ["Magic Carpet Ride" begins blaring through everyone's headsets and the Phoenix lifts off]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact