Watch Space Shuttle launch live
Network News Release …
HDNet (channel 79 on Direct TV, 362 on Dish Network) will broadcast live high-definition coverage of Saturday’s launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-124.
Coverage begins at 3:30 p.m. Saturday with the launch scheduled for 4:02 p.m. from the Kennedy Space Center. Greg Dobbs, HDNet World Report correspondent, will be joined on the broadcast by NASA astronaut Julie Payette, a veteran of space flight.
Discovery’s mission is to deliver Kibo, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency – or JAXA – station laboratory. It is the largest laboratory (and also the second component of Japan’s laboratory complex) to fly to the station. The Kibo pressurized module weighs in at 32,000 pounds. It’s so large that the shuttle’s robotic arm was left at the station during the last mission. There’s not room in Discovery’s cargo bay for both the boom arm and the lab.
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