What are the voices at the end of “Countdown” saying?
– This is a combination of what several people (the list is getting too long) think the end sequence on ‘Countdown’ goes like… Columbia is now reaching precise window in space for main engine cutoff Mark – 2 minutes, 40 seconds…Columbia now 39 nautical miles altitude, 42 nautical miles downrange… Columbia you’re lookin’ a little hot, and all your calls’ll be a little early… Young and Crippen really moving out now velocity now reading -uh- sixty-two hundred feet per second What a view, what a view Glad you’re enjoying it Jay, how does it all look? Columbia to Houston, er, we have forty seconds to LOS; configure LOS, you’re looking good burnin’ over the hill, we’ll see you in Madrid And we enjoyed the music Bob, thank ya Ah, we enjoyed it, we just wanted to share some with you According to several readers of the sci.space.shuttle newsgroup, the NASA meaning of LOS is “loss of signal.” The term LOS is applied to any loss of telemetry for whatever reason, although in this case the
